Colombia Passport

It is already well known that the first Spanish country to open the gates to Facebook was Colombia. Then, it is likely to be that the first president of a country with a Facebook campaign might be Colombian. Surely, if the presidential candidate Antanas Mockus is elected president of the Colombians, he will be the first politician in the history of the world that did his campaign through the Internet.

It shows also that Colombians are more online than what you can imagine. The fact is very important for its development and the progress of its politics. It means also that Colombians can access to more global information and their minds cannot be deceived again by the honey speeches of the caciques (traditional political leaders.)

As Internet users in Colombia are mostly young people and intellectuals, the growing popularity of Mockus is clearly supported by such group of the Colombian society.

Intellectuals and young people have been ignored by traditional politicians in the modern history of Colombia. Intellectuals prefer to leave the country before they are trapped in the same circle of corruption, empty speeches and endless violence. As for young people, they are manipulated by vacuous ideals and betrayed after the elections.

This Mockus, by the other hand, is not managing the same traditional words of every election campaign in Colombia. He does not come from traditional high class families or powerful clans as the last 200 hundred years presidents of Colombia. He is a philosopher that changed the face of the capital of Colombia. To add more, he joined forces with another non-traditional figure of the new wave of Colombian leaders: former Medellín´s major Sergio Fajardo, who is his vice president formula.

Farc with Mockus

This is the most expected question to a man who became in question of weeks so favorite to be the successor of president Álvaro Uribe. With the strongest creator of the Democratic Security, Farc got the worse decay in its almost five decades of fight against the Colombian State.

But Mockus did not give hopes to Farc, if it was waiting such. He said recently that he is ready to take dialogues with the oldest world guerrilla, but on the bases of arguments and not under the threat of kidnapping and terrorism.

‘No va conmigo que la gente se coloque por fuera de la Constitución y las Farc están por fuera y con gente así es imposible negociar‘

‘It is not with me that the people put themselves out of the (National) Constituion, and the Farc is out of it and with people like that it is not possible to negociate,’ he said.

Mockus promised to strength the policy of Democratic Security, the same that made possible to strength the national institutions with president Uribe, while weakening the armed groups like the guerrillas and paramilitaries.

Threat in Facebook

As Facebook, the popular American network that has Colombia as one of its main members, became the political plaza of presidential candidate Mockus and we are in Colombia (even online), threats came soon to dark the optimism of many.

Mockus said to Caracol Radio that he expects that it is a bad joke. However, he says that he is not intimidated. By his part, president Álvaro Uribe declared that if it is possible to request international support to investigate the authors of the threats, he will proceed in this way in order to preserve the Colombian democracy.