Thread by @steinmuller

Learning about Colombian history, my preliminary conclusion is: the core problem is the greed and brutality of the feudal elite of the country. One great example is the Valencia family of Popayan:

Paloma Valencia, senator and personal friend of ex-president Uribe, suggested in 2015 to divide the Cauca into one department for indigenous people and another one for mestizos (2)

Valencia’s family background is intimately connected to the issue, given the family has benefitted for at least 300 years from the exploitation of indigenous people in the same region (3)
periodicovirtual.com/la-casa-valenc…

In fact, her great-grandfather, Guillermo Valencia, already complained about the abolition of slavery (bad for family business), before he became ambassador, governor of the Cauca, congressman, and modernist poet (4)

This Guillermo Valencia was also the main opponent of the famous indigenous leader Quintin Lame: together with his father-in-law Ignacio Muñoz, Valencia persecuted Lame and put him on trial (5)

When Quintin Lame was arrested, Valencia spit in his face and paid thugs to beat him up. Throughout his life, he wrote mediocre poetry imitating European modernism, and campaigned for the presidency twice (and failed twice) (6)

Quintin Lame would not forget. In his book Los pensamientos, Lame writes: “if the pen of Guillermo Valencia serves to write 'Anarkos', the pen of the Indio Manuel Quintín Lame serves to defend Colombia” (8)
siise.bibliotecanacional.gov.co/BBCC/Documents…

The dream of Guillermo the elder to become president was fulfilled by his son, Guillermo the younger: who became president of Colombia in 1962 (9)

During his presidency, the arbitrary bombing of areas held by guerrillas marooned since the 1950s civil war between conservatives and liberals, under the so-called 'Operación Soberanía', led to the establishment of the FARC (10)

The president Guillermo Leon Valencia had four children, including one Ignacio Valencia, congressman of the Conservative party for 16 years, otherwise unremarkable (11)
elpueblo.com.co/los-valencia-u…

The daughter of Ignacio, and last scion of this great family, is Paloma Valencia, who suggested to divide the Cauca into two, campaigned against the peace process and who tweets pictures with her daughter Amapola and the president of the para-state, Alvaro Uribe (12)

The great senator, Paloma Valencia, has studied creative writing in New York and on this basis she has the gift to write the perfect tweet, such as this one, in which she wishes Happy Easter to everyone – on Christmas Day (13)

the right reply is: this Paloma is a corrupt dove, she is the voice of stupidity and greed. With leaders such as this one, with families like the Valencias, Colombia needs no enemies (14)

https://twitter.com/harrypother3/status/1210027486651801603?s=20

Let’s end this thread with a song from Alfredo Gutierrez about corrupt doves, the Paloma Guarumera