{"id":26317,"date":"2009-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/uribe-and-the-mermaids\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:30:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:30:36","slug":"uribe-and-the-mermaids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/uribe-and-the-mermaids\/","title":{"rendered":"Uribe and the Mermaids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CUENTA HOMERO EN LA ODISEA QUE las sirenas del Mediterr\u00e1neo pose\u00edan un canto tan hermoso que cuando los marinos las o\u00edan, se dirig\u00edan enceguecidos hacia ellas y terminaban estrellados contra el arrecife; si no mor\u00edan all\u00ed, perec\u00edan luego a manos de las sirenas.<\/p>\n<p>Sabiendo de la existencia de este peligro, dice Homero, Ulises decidi\u00f3 tapar con cera los o\u00eddos de sus marineros, no sin antes pedirles que lo amarraran fuertemente al m\u00e1stil del barco. El gran h\u00e9roe griego pudo as\u00ed escuchar el canto de las sirenas y a pesar de que pidi\u00f3 desesperadamente a sus compa\u00f1eros que lo desataran, nadie le oy\u00f3 y de esta manera logr\u00f3 evitar el funesto destino que las sirenas les ten\u00edan preparado.<br \/>\nEste pasaje de la Odisea ha sido utilizado para explicar, entre otras cosas, la manera como las constituciones sirven a los pueblos que las adoptan. Quiz\u00e1s valga la pena recordar eso ahora que el Gobierno pretende, una vez m\u00e1s, reformar la constituci\u00f3n para reelegir al presidente Uribe.<br \/>\nCuando el pueblo redacta una Constituci\u00f3n, se autolimita; se ata las manos \u2014como Ulises\u2014 con la certeza de que as\u00ed podr\u00e1 liberarse, en el futuro, de muchos males. As\u00ed como los marinos griegos eran tentados por las sirenas, los gobernantes son tentados por el poder. Ya lo dec\u00eda Lord Acton a finales del siglo XIX: \u201cel poder corrompe y el poder absoluto corrompe absolutamente\u201d. Para evitar que esto suceda, la Constituci\u00f3n amarra al gobernante y, de esa manera, le permite que alcance objetivos que, si bien son m\u00e1s modestos que los que \u00e9l se habr\u00eda propuesto si estuviera suelto, es decir, libre, por lo menos son realizables y no conducen a la cat\u00e1strofe.<br \/>\nLa autolimitaci\u00f3n defiende a los gobernantes contra ellos mismos, contra su idealismo, contra sus pasiones, contra su ansiedad y contra su apetito de gloria. Esto no tiene nada que ver con una suerte de moderaci\u00f3n estoica o de austeridad puritana \u2014no es un asunto moral\u2014, sino con un principio pragm\u00e1tico seg\u00fan el cual, en muchas ocasiones \u2014y la vida pol\u00edtica est\u00e1 llena de ellas\u2014 \u201clo ideal es enemigo de lo bueno\u201d o, como dec\u00edan los minimalistas, \u201cless is more\u201d (menos es m\u00e1s).<br \/>\nEn el caso colombiano, la autolimitaci\u00f3n tampoco tiene nada que ver con ser uribista o no. Si uno acepta la Constituci\u00f3n, tiene que estar dispuesto a que los gobernantes que uno apoya se amarren tambi\u00e9n. Yo no tengo mayores simpat\u00edas por el presidente Uribe, pero defender\u00eda ese principio si el gobernante actual fuera alguien de mis afectos. Lo mismo creo que deben hacer los uribistas, entre otras cosas para defender a Uribe, para protegerlo de sus impulsos y de sus pasiones.<br \/>\nLa decisi\u00f3n de autolimitarse supone que las personas, y entre ellas los gobernantes, son fr\u00e1giles y a veces ceden a sus tentaciones. Por eso, la autolimitaci\u00f3n \u2014la Constituci\u00f3n\u2014 es algo que nos hace mejores de lo que ser\u00edamos si estuvi\u00e9semos abandonados a nuestra propia suerte. Como dec\u00eda Madison en El federalista, las reglas que establecen estas limitaciones perfeccionan la naturaleza humana. Algo similar dec\u00eda el juez Holmes: \u201cla paradoja de la democracia es que si el pueblo no se atara las manos, no tendr\u00eda manos\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>El problema con Uribe es que no acepta tener las limitaciones y las fragilidades que tienen los gobernantes. A diferencia de Ulises, que fue un gran h\u00e9roe, el Presidente no sospecha de la existencia de las sirenas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homer in the Odyssey that the Mermaids of the Mediterranean had a beautiful chant that when the sailors listened to it, they went blinded to them and finished crashed against the corals, if not they died in the place, killed by the mermaids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","subcategory-institutional-strengthening","medium-el-espectador-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Uribe and the Mermaids - 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