Government budgetary decisions, when they are not inclusive, end up costing lives.

A recurrent attack towards the so-called plebiscite for peace is that it would be a rigged tool that seeks to force the citizenry to accept the possible peace accord, as it would reduce the threshold to only to 13%, with which only a minority of four million of the 33 million people that make up the electoral census could impose their vision of peace on all of Colombia.

Elides J. Rojas, a Venezuelan journalist, published in January 2013 a list of the insults that Chavismo has used against the opposition. These are only some of them: nation sellers, rogues, thiefs, worms, dogs, flies, insects, vipers, rats, cowards, necrophiles, blood-suckers, drug addicts, mercenaries, quacks, leeches, puppies of the empire, soulless, pro-yankees, satraps, wretches, bacterias, terrorists, war dogs, messengers of death, intellectual dwarves, spirit killers, sackers, child eaters, slavers, grave diggers, carrion, history's garbage, etc.