{"id":26278,"date":"2009-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/the-future-of-the-past\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:29:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:29:46","slug":"the-future-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-future-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SI HUBIERA QUE ESCOGER UN PAR DE palabras para caracterizar la mentalidad nacional, yo optar\u00eda por estas: \u201ccorto plazo\u201d. Aqu\u00ed vivimos enfrascados en acontecimientos puntuales y repetitivos que nos impiden ver las secuencias, las estructuras y las fuerzas que los producen. <\/p>\n<p>En Colombia no tenemos an\u00e1lisis sino noticias y ni siquiera buenas noticias sino im\u00e1genes de noticias. Quienes se detienen a pensar en lo que ha sucedido en las \u00faltimas d\u00e9cadas, son vistos como fil\u00f3sofos y quienes hacen filosof\u00eda, como lun\u00e1ticos. Mientras en otras partes del mundo, sobre todo en estos tiempos de crisis, la opini\u00f3n p\u00fablica explora nuevos rumbos hasta en Cuba est\u00e1 pasando eso aqu\u00ed vivimos atrapados en nuestro presente montuno y absorto. <\/p>\n<p>El debate nacional siempre ha sido as\u00ed, ensimismado y at\u00f3nito; tan apegado al suceso como desentendido de la planeaci\u00f3n y del an\u00e1lisis. Pero esa miop\u00eda nacional para ver el mediano plazo ni qu\u00e9 decir del largo se ha acentuado con el Gobierno actual. M\u00e1s a\u00fan, parece ser que una de las estrategias de Uribe consiste en convertir todos los hechos en noticias cotidianas, consumibles y ef\u00edmeras, de tal manera que unas reemplacen a las otras en una secuencia interminable, sin historia y sin hilo conductor. \u00bfCu\u00e1ntas veces nos hemos enterado de las \u2018chuzadas\u2019, de la parapol\u00edtica, de la reelecci\u00f3n, de los falsos positivos, de los ataques de Uribe contra la prensa y contra sus opositores? Cada noticia es vista como una novedad y por eso tenemos la impresi\u00f3n contradictoria de que aqu\u00ed pasan muchas cosas y no pasa nada. <\/p>\n<p>Pero los grandes problemas de fondo est\u00e1n ah\u00ed, tan macizos e implacables como siempre. No creo que haya mucha dificultad en reconocer que esos grandes problemas giran alrededor de cuatro temas: la tierra, la mafia, la guerrilla y el sistema pol\u00edtico. Lo digo en una frase larga: el fracaso de la reforma agraria y el surgimiento del narcotr\u00e1fico en los a\u00f1os setenta, envenenaron el campo y dieron lugar a una guerra a tres bandas entre la subversi\u00f3n, los paramilitares y el Ej\u00e9rcito, la cual termin\u00f3, en buena parte del pa\u00eds, con la victoria de este \u00faltimo, pero tambi\u00e9n con la consolidaci\u00f3n \u2014una vez desmovilizados los paras\u2014 del latifundio y de un sistema pol\u00edtico clientelista y no pocas veces seudomafioso. <\/p>\n<p>Si realmente quisi\u00e9ramos enfrentar los problemas que surgieron de esta cadena de acontecimientos, deber\u00edamos, en este momento, estar concentrados en debatir c\u00f3mo hacer una verdadera reforma agraria, c\u00f3mo legalizar la droga, o por lo menos c\u00f3mo idear soluciones alternativas a las actuales y c\u00f3mo crear un sistema de partidos decente y leg\u00edtimo.  <\/p>\n<p>Pero esos problemas de fondo no s\u00f3lo no aparecen en la agenda p\u00fablica, sino que el Gobierno est\u00e1 empe\u00f1ado en hacer justamente lo contrario de lo que se necesita para resolverlos: dise\u00f1a una pol\u00edtica agraria destinada a consolidar el latifundio; mantiene el discurso moralizante contra las drogas, propone repenalizar el consumo m\u00ednimo y dise\u00f1a una reforma pol\u00edtica que deja intactas las maquinarias clientelistas. <\/p>\n<p>Esto me hace pensar que quiz\u00e1s los \u00fanicos que s\u00ed tienen una verdadera visi\u00f3n de mediano y largo plazo en este pa\u00eds son el presidente Uribe y sus seguidores m\u00e1s dogm\u00e1ticos e incondicionales. S\u00f3lo que, en este caso, el largo plazo est\u00e1 destinado a restaurar ese pasado autoritario, cat\u00f3lico y patriarcal con que so\u00f1aban Caro y N\u00fa\u00f1ez cuando imaginaron la Constituci\u00f3n de 1886.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there would have to choose a couple of words to describe the national mentality, I&#8217;d say these: &#8220;short term&#8221;. 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