The so called crisis in South America between Colombia and Ecuador foster by Venezuela and Nicaragua has prompted their respective presidents to show how machos they are.
But beware, we should not use indistinctly the words Venezuela and President of Venezuela. And the same stands for the other participants in this affair (and I am running out of words to call this just to avoid naming it school fight).
One person does not represent the feelings of a whole country but amazing as it may appear, can put a country on the verge of war and then change his face to a friendly one to shake hands with the not so far ago (maybe minutes) enemy. I recall now Videla´s Argentina and that crazy war coming from nowhere to distract the people from the real worries of the economic situation of a disastrous government with an absolute lack of management skills.
But here we are, don´t have to look so far in time to find populists who made thousands of men go to war only because of their narcisism and vanity, always fit in a brilliant disguise of national pride. No doubt that because in the end there has not been a blood bath, everybody may say I am exaggerating. But actually it has been one man decision, as so many times in history, not to draw first blood. This should make all of us ponder the way things are and realize something has to be made in order the world may avoid such dangerous situations now more and more governments (not coutries, not people in them, just rulers and their cohorts) try to get nuclear dissuasion armament.
Also as citizens have the responsibility in our hands not to follow as sheeps every fool that gets the microphone. And maybe that is just enough. With the medicine of schooling for everybody we will get ride of the populist infection that takes the lives of the youth in the pursuit of the pride of the macho-presidents. In the meantime let´s pray none of them gets the nuke-button.
But beware, we should not use indistinctly the words Venezuela and President of Venezuela. And the same stands for the other participants in this affair (and I am running out of words to call this just to avoid naming it school fight).
One person does not represent the feelings of a whole country but amazing as it may appear, can put a country on the verge of war and then change his face to a friendly one to shake hands with the not so far ago (maybe minutes) enemy. I recall now Videla´s Argentina and that crazy war coming from nowhere to distract the people from the real worries of the economic situation of a disastrous government with an absolute lack of management skills.
But here we are, don´t have to look so far in time to find populists who made thousands of men go to war only because of their narcisism and vanity, always fit in a brilliant disguise of national pride. No doubt that because in the end there has not been a blood bath, everybody may say I am exaggerating. But actually it has been one man decision, as so many times in history, not to draw first blood. This should make all of us ponder the way things are and realize something has to be made in order the world may avoid such dangerous situations now more and more governments (not coutries, not people in them, just rulers and their cohorts) try to get nuclear dissuasion armament.
Also as citizens have the responsibility in our hands not to follow as sheeps every fool that gets the microphone. And maybe that is just enough. With the medicine of schooling for everybody we will get ride of the populist infection that takes the lives of the youth in the pursuit of the pride of the macho-presidents. In the meantime let´s pray none of them gets the nuke-button.
