The "boys" are willing to stand up to a possible fraud in Colombia in the second round of presidential elections and that could give the position to the candidate Rodolfo Hernández, said the elected representative to the Valle del Cauca congress for the Historic Pact, Jose Alberto Tejada Echeverri, better known as “El Cucho from Channel 2”.
"If Rodolfo Hernández is elected, don't think he'll do well. These kids are ready to stand up to him, and if it's Petro, I hope that the kids are also vigilant, both towards the government and towards the congressmen who are being elected, because the worst thing that can happen to us is to betray the hope of these people who came out in the uprising," said the journalist and businessman from Cali, Colombia.
In an interview with Alina Duarte, one of the reporters covering the second round of elections in Colombia, sponsored by the organization Global Exchange in collaboration with Península 360 Press, El Cucho stressed that the country "is not governed by politicians, but by criminal mafias that use trivial politicians to maintain economic, territorial, social and political power."
In this regard, he pointed out that the biggest problem Colombia has is that the political class has disappeared, because he said, "there are no longer ideas or great State proposals, but a group of "lobbyists" and criminals dressed as politicians who have done nothing but co-opt public income and assets for their own purposes, taking over large swathes of the national territory."
In response, he said that the "youngsters" feel that they are living in a borrowed country, "a country that is not theirs" despite having been born there, and that "with aggression they have occupied Cali as a laboratory for social explosion. What they are causing is for this to get out of hand."
"I hope we are wrong, but if they continue to capture young people of whom there is no evidence that they are terrorists, criminals or murderers, while one sees that the police who killed young people who disappeared and mutilated young people are not harmed, that generates anger in the heart and could explode and it seems that is what the current government wants," he said.
She added that Colombia is not the same after April 28, 2021, because, she said, on that day "the Second Republic was born, one where girls and boys who were not taken into account, where they told everyone: we exist and we do not want to continue being left out of the cake, we do not want to be treated any longer with precarious incomes, without food, without education and you stealing from the country in front of us. So, Colombia will not be the same."
Forecast for this Sunday, is there hope?
As the leader of the broad front of the Historic Pact in Cali, and as an elected congressman, he pointed out that he hopes that Gustavo Petro will be allowed to win the presidency "and that they will not boycott this dream of a country."
Tejada explained that all the conditions exist for Petro to be president, since "there is no doubt that the majority decision of the people of Colombia is that Petro and Francia will be the new government."
Another thing, he said, is whether political, security and media conditions allow it.
«Now I speak to you as an analyst, I am very skeptical about this. I think that they are already forcing Petro to recognize and accept the results in advance. They are denying him the right to be defeated in a fair trial. This message must be read between the lines. This is an authoritarian act, a fascist act.»
In addition, he said that the detention of young people is a strategy of fear. "Fear is the greatest ingredient for generating social immobility, because when you are afraid, you buy security, you no longer buy reasons."
He added that, in addition to everything, a script is being prepared with two possible scenarios. The first, "where Petro is not allowed to win with a monumental fraud, with a chaos that breaks institutional possibilities of democratic elections, which can generate many serious situations."
While the second is to let him win, but not to take possession.
«From June 19 to August 7, many things can happen, such as what happened in Colombia in 1953, where the incumbent president was overthrown by a coup d'état and the elections are set aside. Second, the opposing candidate may win and be called to trial, and he may not be allowed to take office, and if he does, the Supreme Court will immediately suspend him from office and leave the vice president in charge, an unscrupulous and inexperienced woman who will be easy prey to the manipulation that this current regime will do to its new government, because she is inexperienced.»
A third option, he stressed, is that Rodolfo should not be removed from office - if he wins - and that he should be allowed to take office through "legalistic" formulas where he will be warned: "Look, my son, you will remain in power, but you are practically on the verge of going to jail, there we will prevent them from doing anything to you, but you will let us govern in exchange for your freedom and your assets, in exchange for us continuing to manage the country as we wish."
And finally, one where Petro's Republic is made "unlivable, he is subjected to a bloody coup or killed from June 19 to August 6 or after August 7, is the scenario I see as an analyst."
This article was produced with the support of a group of journalists covering the second round of elections in Colombia, sponsored by the Global Exchange organization in collaboration with Península 360 Press.
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