Retired Colonel John Marulanda said a dangerous phrase that strangely ended up helping to measure, like a thermometer, what Colombian public opinion thinks of the possibility of a possible coup d'état. His anti-democratic statement on W Radio on May 11 gradually revealed who agreed with him, and who did not.
The tall, 71-year-old man with a black mustache, born in the department of Caldas, was unknown to most Colombians and went from anonymity to disrepute in a few hours.