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I belong to the first generation that detests cigarettes. I grew up, as many, seeing my parents smoke two packs daily and sucking in all the smoke in the world.

To be opposed to a government is not the same thing as to revolt against a tyrant. First there is ‘dissent’ and another is called ‘rebellion’. Both attitudes are opposed to political power, but while ‘dissent’ does it in defense of the institutions, the second ‘rebellion’ does it against them and tries to replace them. But in Colombia, the border between the two attitudes is very faint. A sample of this is what is currently happening at the National University.

Oliver Holmes, the Great American Justice, said that a person that does not have the least respect for moral principle, finishes being a faithful moral follower when with it he can avoid jail or payment of fines. In Colombia, he passes the opposite of what Holmes plants: as the people see that there are not effective sanctions and everyone breaks the law, one feels the right to disobey the law and finish accommodating its moral convictions to its disobedience.

The confessions of the former Congressperson Yidis Medina has placed serious doubt of the legitimacy of the reform that established the re-election, therefore today it is clear that various decisive votes were obtained thanks to privileges offered by the Government.