Colombia’s opposition admits to purposely distorting reality to sink peace process

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia’s opposition admits to purposely distorting reality to sink peace process

written by Adriaan Alsema October 6, 2016

Colombia’s conservative opposition leader Alvaro Uribe is furious with his campaign manager after the latter revealed his campaign purposely promoted indignation and ignorance in a campaign that sought to a sink a peace process with leftist FARC guerrillas.

Former Senator Juan Carlos Velez, the campaign manager of Uribe’s Democratic Center party, told newspaper La Republica newspaper that his campaign was successful because it purposely fomented indignation, while purposely avoiding to inform the public about the content of the peace deal the party was opposing.

The strategy worked, albeit only just. The opposition’s ‘No’ vote obtained no more than 55,000 votes while abstention was 63%.

The vote did not just sink the peace process that had already started, it also plunged the country’s in a major political, social and public security crisis.

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