00:00And we remain on topic on Colombia's elections.
00:03We are now joined by Juan Gabriel Caro Rivera, Master's Degree in History and founding member of the Vanguardia Colombia
00:10Group.
00:11Welcome Juan to From the South.
00:15Thanks for inviting me. It's a pleasure to be here.
00:18It's a pleasure to have you. Juan, we are just, as we were saying, two days away from the election
00:22day next Sunday, May 31st.
00:24What are the main aspects to take into account ahead of this milestone that Colombia will experience on Sunday?
00:33Well, the elections in Colombia, it's a pipe between the left, represented by Cepeda with the historical path.
00:45The center, represented Paloma, Valencia.
00:51And the right, represented by Abelardo de las Priegas.
00:54These elections are important because it's an opportunity to go to Colombia's elections in the continuation of Gustavo Petro's program,
01:14or abandon this program to accept the intervention of the United States of America in the political election of our
01:28continent.
01:29Because in the last two years, the United States put again their eyes in South America, and it's changing the
01:42political governance system in all the continent.
01:47In the election of Honduras, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, and more, the United States has intervened in a very open way
02:01and changed the political landscape of our continent.
02:06Colombia is the next target in this program.
02:11Colombia is the next target in this program.
02:12We are, these elections are important because we need to know what are the possibilities of their configuration of the
02:26political panorama in our continent.
02:31This is the fight we are doing in this moment, and the elections of Colombia are the opening of a
02:42continuation of the program of Gustavo Petro,
02:45or the new program of the United States in our continent.
02:50That's it.
02:51Juan, for the region, what would the next elections on Sunday, either way the results go, what would those results
02:58reflect not only for Colombia,
03:00for the religion, and also for the whole concept of to prevent the hegemony of the United States to take
03:05over the region as you were briefly mentioning just now?
03:10Well, this is an important problem. This is a difficult question to answer. We know the United States are manipulating
03:22the program elections.
03:26There are a very powerful mass media using the computers and other disinformation to do psychological operations to change the
03:45result of the elections.
03:48All things are very difficult here, and the political landscape in Colombia is taking a very pluralization of the population
04:04in this moment.
04:05The fighting between right and left is very hard in Colombia. The terrible intervention of the United States are doing
04:23this fight very, very complicated for all candidates.
04:29And the deterioration of the United States and Colombia relationship in international play are not doing very easy elections in
04:41our country.
04:43This is the reason because the elections are important, because independently of the change or the intervention of the country,
04:59countries in our elections are the result of the chosen of the people who want to continue or this or
05:11transforming our inclusion in other things.
05:19And this is the real problem in the elections in Colombia.
05:25There is no easy solution of that.
05:31Is security a concern? We have seen numerous denunciations of increased paramilitary activity, especially of the military groups that impact
05:42before all, especially the rural communities in Colombia.
05:46And we have seen an increase in Colombia. And we have seen an increase in Colombia. And we have seen
05:47an increase in activity as well as denounced by the President Petro, especially in the border with Ecuador.
05:51So is security a concern for next Sunday's elections? And how can this impact the voters' intention to go out
05:58to the polls?
06:00Yes.
06:01Yes, the security is a big problem in this election because the last two years in Petro government, there is
06:11a powerful, there's a powerful attack of illegal groups.
06:18There's no, there's no, there's no, there's no only the historical guerrillas who are challenged to the, to the trying,
06:29the Colombian state.
06:31There is illegal group's, bandas, bandas criminales who are, or say who exists in our, in our country, who are
06:45attacked.
06:46attack, and they operate with total impunity in these years.
06:53The weakness of the security in our country is real.
07:00And this is, once again,
07:03using by the opposition of the actual government to attack the weak presidential portal of Gustavo Pedro in this country.
07:22And the security is a great concern of the majority of the Colombian people.
07:33And this is a very good, a very great problem for ours.
07:39The attack of the United States of Venezuela and the kidnap of Maduro
07:48will cause terrible immigration of these Colombian guerrillas who are in Venezuela
08:01to return to our country.
08:06And this creates a war between guerrillas,
08:11criminales, and illegal groups of all continents
08:15who are in conflict and attack the civilian people in certain territorial,
08:25certain marginal territories of our country.
08:28And this insecurity has opened the alarms of very much people
08:38who are very, very disgusting about the situation.
08:44and this is a fool who impregnate the hatred of the opposition against the Gustavo Pedro government.
08:55This is a very difficult situation for the actual president in this moment.
09:03Thank you, Juan, for your time and input here with us in From the South.
09:09Thanks for inviting me.
09:11Well, we were speaking with Juan Gabriel to learn more, to analyze a bit deeper the situation.
09:16We were talking with Juan Gabriel to learn more than the people that we were going to receive and look
09:16at this situation.
09:16Which is how it's going to be done.
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