{"id":26415,"date":"2009-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/hector-abad-gomez-2\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:32:00","slug":"hector-abad-gomez-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/hector-abad-gomez-2\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u00e9ctor Abad G\u00f3mez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EN EL MES DE AGOSTO SE CONMEmora el asesinato de dos grandes personalidades de la Colombia de finales del siglo XX.<\/p>\n<p>Ellos son Luis Carlos Gal\u00e1n y H\u00e9ctor Abad G\u00f3mez. Ambos se enfrentaron a esa combinaci\u00f3n terrible de clientelismo, paramilitarismo y narcotr\u00e1fico que, a mediados de los a\u00f1os ochenta, empezaba a tomar forma en Colombia y que hoy ha capturado buena parte del pa\u00eds. La semana pasada habl\u00e9 de Gal\u00e1n; hoy quisiera escribir algo sobre Abad G\u00f3mez.<\/p>\n<p>A juzgar por sus or\u00edgenes, H\u00e9ctor Abad era eso que llaman un \u201cantioque\u00f1o de pura cepa\u201d. Hab\u00eda nacido en Jeric\u00f3, un pueblo del suroeste antioque\u00f1o, en el seno de una familia de padre ganadero y madre dedicada a la educaci\u00f3n cat\u00f3lica de sus hijos. No obstante, Abad se sali\u00f3 muy pronto del libreto que estaba previsto en los genes sociales de su ancestro antioque\u00f1o. Primero lo hizo como m\u00e9dico dedicado a la salud p\u00fablica, cuando esa disciplina era casi desconocida en Colombia. Luego lo hizo impartiendo una c\u00e1tedra abierta y cr\u00edtica en la Universidad de Antioquia, cuando nadie se apartaba de la ense\u00f1anza magistral; por \u00faltimo, lo hizo defendiendo los derechos humanos al interior el Partido Liberal, cuando el clientelismo y las componendas pol\u00edticas eran la \u00fanica manera de ganar votos.<\/p>\n<p>Abad G\u00f3mez cre\u00eda que el subdesarrollo era un estado de la mente y que la pobreza de la cultura era la causa, no el efecto, de la pobreza material. (Eso lo pens\u00f3 mucho antes de que Lawrence Harrison escribiera su c\u00e9lebre libro Underdevelopment is a state of mind). Por eso, alguna vez, cuando le preguntaron por su fecha de nacimiento, Abad G\u00f3mez respondi\u00f3 que, seg\u00fan el calendario, hab\u00eda nacido en 1921, pero que seg\u00fan la situaci\u00f3n hist\u00f3rica y cultural de su pueblo, hab\u00eda nacido a principios del siglo XIX. As\u00ed se gan\u00f3 muchos enemigos, sobre todo jerarcas de la iglesia, terratenientes y pol\u00edticos, que ve\u00edan en sus ideas mansas una amenaza contra los valores sociales y religiosos de la sociedad antioque\u00f1a tradicional. Por eso y por defender los derechos humanos, lo mataron. (Siempre he pensado que, as\u00ed como las patrias tienen fechas de celebraci\u00f3n, deber\u00edan tener fechas de verg\u00fcenza\u2026 esta ser\u00eda una de ellas).<\/p>\n<p>Si H\u00e9ctor Abad G\u00f3mez hubiese nacido y vivido en una sociedad mentalmente m\u00e1s desarrollada, su vida y sus ideas se habr\u00edan confundido con las de sus conciudadanos y por supuesto nadie habr\u00eda pensado en matarlo. Pero vivi\u00f3, ense\u00f1\u00f3 y escribi\u00f3 en Medell\u00edn \u2014y en Colombia\u2014 en una sociedad en donde las ideas m\u00e1s simples de tolerancia, honestidad y libertad eran, y todav\u00eda son, peligrosas, sobre todo cuando alguien toma la decisi\u00f3n, como \u00e9l la tom\u00f3, de defenderlas p\u00fablica y abiertamente.<\/p>\n<p>Hace veinte a\u00f1os mataron a Gal\u00e1n y hace veintitr\u00e9s a\u00f1os mataron a H\u00e9ctor Abad G\u00f3mez. Ambos ten\u00edan ideas liberales moderadas. Ninguno de los dos era un fan\u00e1tico ni un extremista. No obstante, ambos fueron asesinados por lo que pensaban y dec\u00edan. Peor a\u00fan, el proyecto de sociedad que defend\u00edan fue herido de muerte.<br \/>\nEN EL MES DE AGOSTO SE CONMEmora el asesinato de dos grandes personalidades de la Colombia de finales del siglo XX.<\/p>\n<p>Con el asesinato de Gal\u00e1n, Colombia perdi\u00f3 a un modelo de hombre p\u00fablico, de estadista y de gobernante. Con la muerte de H\u00e9ctor Abad, el pa\u00eds perdi\u00f3 a un ciudadano ejemplar. Ojal\u00e1 estas dos conmemoraciones de agosto sirvieran para mejorar la pol\u00edtica y para despertar a la ciudadan\u00eda del letargo negligente en el que se encuentra, sobre todo hoy, cuando asistimos inermes al espect\u00e1culo deplorable de la aprobaci\u00f3n de la Ley del Referendo. Creo que si Gal\u00e1n y Abad estuvieran vivos, se har\u00edan matar de nuevo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The murder of two important persons of the late twentieth century is commemorated in August. <\/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-26415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","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>H\u00e9ctor Abad G\u00f3mez - Dejusticia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/hector-abad-gomez\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"H\u00e9ctor Abad G\u00f3mez\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The murder of two important persons of the late twentieth century is commemorated in August.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/hector-abad-gomez\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dejusticia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-08-28T05:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-04-11T12:32:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"NewsArticle\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/hector-abad-gomez\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/hector-abad-gomez\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mauricio Garc\u00eda Villegas\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/d5933ad4c269c4b6c2acbf717ceeb0d6\"},\"headline\":\"H\u00e9ctor Abad G\u00f3mez\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-08-28T05:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-11T12:32:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/hector-abad-gomez\/\"},\"wordCount\":677,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2009\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/hector-abad-gomez\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/hector-abad-gomez\/\",\"name\":\"H\u00e9ctor Abad G\u00f3mez - 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