Today walls of several buildings on the campus of the University Melendez Valley woke up with new messages, expressions of radicalism that has co-opted to student participation in the main university of the south-western Colombia and, surely, is a similar situation in other public universities. Defiant messages, arson and even threatening to have revived times the infiltration of illegal armies in large university and have achieved by way of fact to impose the views of thousands of Colombian students.
And is that the discourse of democracy and freedom the academic and professional instruction has deteriorated to the level of debauchery and decay tacit hierarchies. Radical groups that have been made arbitrarily with the flags of the student movement, led by the means of verbal and physical violence, but always reactionary, to be implemented in the imagery of populist proposals university communities of origin marking on the left once radical and challenging of the basic principles of rule of law. They have also imposed in the agenda of student dissent they purport to represent, the idea that suggests that college is a political institution and not a center of thought and production knowledge. Suddenly, thinking about the popular election of presidents or the creation of participatory budgeting ceased to be ideas in the minds of the protesters became chronic and recurrent themes in the student assemblies degraded.
It is a pity that the response of the radicals is accompanied by a fearful silence of the majority of students who reject violence, the presence of hooded and imposed political propaganda in the classroom and the walls of our universities to force, under the threat of blockades, and even pitched battles on the warning lethal weapons. Today, the proposed amendment to the Higher Education Law No. 30 submitted by the national government is becoming lost another opportunity to participate appropriately in its criticism and the construction of an alternative initiative. The opportunity to reform once and for a while at a higher education system needs to be updated to the needs of modern economic society is fading into the steam away with the homemade bombs of the radicals who hide their identity in a hood .
Violence, ways of doing things and rebellion Colombia have cost years of progress and prosperity for its citizens. Poverty Chronic country has acceded to its DNA product of the major conflicts, civil wars and the opportunism of the illegal armies who sought to increase his power at the silence of Colombian society, the complicity of some officials and the sound of bombs and rifles. The costs of violence in this country yet to be fully quantified, but could be measured in years lost, irretrievable time. But surely resorting to violence to end the ills of this poor nation will eventually only further distance the desired achievement of peace, welfare and happiness for millions.
La Universidad del Valle, as no university state system of higher education, is outside the desire to succeed in building agreements between the sense of academic and scientific rigor that should characterize a university community and not build the discussion on violence, incendiary speech, radicalism and lack of true democracy, because democracy is not silence, is the clarity with which outlines the problems and the existence of the means to resolve, in the words of English politician Enrique Mugica. For true democracy to caring for the spirit of extreme inequality, which leads to the pre-modern aristocracy, as it should take care of the spirit of equality extreme, which leads to despotism. Despotism that you smell in the violent demonstrations.
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