Anti-corruption senator moons Colombia's Congress in call for discipline

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema July 23, 2018

Colombia’s Congress has begun a new legislative term, and was almost immediately treated to the shiny white buttocks of anti-corruption Senator Antanas Mockus.

The first day of the legislative term was already going to be special because it was the first day that former leaders of demobilized guerrilla group FARC took place in Congress.

For decades, the lawmaker’s paid soldiers were ready to kill the former guerrillas, and now they had to debate with them between “honorable representatives.”

But Mockus’, not the FARC, got most the attention and knew best how to offend the members of what is widely considered Colombia’s most corrupt institution.


More:
https://colombiareports.com/anti-corruption-senator-moons-colombias-congress-to-demand-discipline/



Hooray, Antanas Mockus.

Wikipedia:

Antanas Mockus

Antanas Mockus Šivickas
794th Mayor of Bogotá
In office
1 January 2001 – 31 December 2003
Preceded by Enrique Peñalosa Londoño
Succeeded by Luis Eduardo Garzón
791st Mayor of Bogotá
In office
1 January 1995 – 10 April 1997
Preceded by Jaime Castro Castro
Succeeded by Paul Bromberg
Rector of the National University of Colombia
In office
1990–1993
Succeeded by Guillermo Páramo Rocha
Personal details
Born Aurelijus Rutenis Antanas Mockus Šivickas
25 March 1952 (age 66)
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia

He left office as the president of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá in 1993, and later that year ran a successful campaign for mayor. He proceeded to preside over Bogotá as mayor for two (non-consecutive) terms, during which he became known for springing surprising and humorous initiatives upon the city's inhabitants. These tended to involve grand gestures, including local artists or personal appearances by the mayor himself—taking a shower in a commercial about conserving water, or walking the streets dressed in spandex and a cape as Supercitizen. On 4 March 2010, he was elected in a public consultation as the Colombian Green Party candidate for the presidential election in 2010.

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanas_Mockus