For someone who is not Colombian, understanding the concept of tusa is not easy.
Until you suffer.
Or, not to go into detail, until he sees how others suffer.
It happened that night of October 2, 2016, in which Colombia turned its back on the government's peace agreement with the FARC in a plebiscite.
With a pyrrhic difference, in a minimal vote after a campaign riddled with inventions such as the gender ideology propagated by the most recalcitrant Uribe... The hope of many people in something as abstract as the concept of peace turned into an infinitely more palpable sadness.
This Sunday, in the largest turnout ever, millions of Colombians were finally able to celebrate around the Agreement.
It is not unreasonable to think, then, that, as occurs with tusas,
The postponed triumph of the 'yes' to peace is that Colombia, the country that lived through six decades of war, that shot down Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, Carlos Pizarro, Bernardo Jaramillo, Luis Carlos Galán, has elected a former guerrilla, no matter how many use that word as a disqualifier to sow fear: What was José Mujica, if not? What is Antonio Navarro Wolf?
What was the Petro mayor of Bogotá himself?
As it is also a triumph of peace that in the deadliest country for the defenders of the earth the next vice president is going to be a black woman, an environmental activist.
The victory of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez cannot be understood without the Agreement that was signed in Havana.
“The signing and implementation of the final agreement will contribute to the expansion and deepening of democracy insofar as it will imply the laying down of weapons and the prohibition of violence as a method of political action for all Colombians in order to move to a scenario in which Democracy reigns."
These are not Petro's words on campaign;
they are part of the second point of the text, which refers to political participation.
Signed, at the same table, by the Government with the former combatants, the same ones who have continued to kill in recent years without ceasing in their commitment to lay down their arms, regardless of whether their political party is inconsequential.
One of Petro's great challenges will be to guarantee the full implementation of that agreement, vilified by the current government, which, if it has not hesitated in anything, has been to postpone any measure that would guarantee compliance with what was signed.
Those won by Duque were the first elections without the FARC guerrillas taking up arms, but the pact was so recent that, in practice, Sunday's elections can be considered the first elections in which the war has not been an issue. campaign.
Not only.
The two candidates running for the Presidency were in favor of the text.
The Peace Agreement guaranteed on paper a new horizon for the country.
For those 'nobody' to whom Francia Márquez has referred so much.
Also for a generation that has been more affected by the social unrest of recent years and a pandemic that deepened inequality than the war of decades ago.
A youth that after the triumph of the 'no' filled the streets.
They were the first to lay the foundations for a long-awaited victory that took almost six years to come.