Pablo Escobar: my idol! – Las2orillas

He calls Tomás Henao and he is only 13 years old. It does not know who was Rodrigo Lara Bonilla and still less Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento, nor what legacy they left to this country of the Sacred Heart. When he speaks of "evil boss", as Caracol Television baptized the biggest Mafia who gave birth to Colombia, and that he does it with shining eyes, I guess in his head lies the fact that he is the only one to be in charge. image of the great actor Andrés Parra, not the face of the subject that in the late eighties and early nineties, the country was safe from terrorism and the evil. Invested values? Chronic stupidity? L & # 39; ignorance?

Tomás did not live at this time of anguish, to "flee" early, bombings in the streets and malls in broad daylight. There is no memory of those years in which the leader of a murdered policeman could represent his murderer up to two and a half million Colombian pesos, the equivalent of eighty minimum wages at the time. Among Avianca's Boeing 727-21, which exploded in the air on Soacha and claimed 110 lives, he discovered decades later, sitting in an armchair in the bedroom watching his favorite novel of the night. In addition, at the end of his tour, he met Popeye, the star of the capo lieutenants band of capos and that he began to follow religiously in social networks as his own. he was a celebrity.

Chapter after chapter, "exploit after exploit," Escobar made this boy a model worthy of imitating and idolizing. This idea of ​​Robin Hood, the one that the journalist Fernando Álvarez wanted to sell us years ago in a text for the forgotten published by the magazine Week in 1983, he remains alive and beats his heart in the hearts of many inhabitants of Medellín. Thomas is just one more among the thousands who make pilgrimages to Escobar's grave to light candles.

The existence of this boy who loves Pablo Escobar, he learned all of Colombia because Blu Radio interviewed him to record that the building of Monaco, the old wall of the "Cosa Nostra" Colombian, had reached a boy who wanted to express his protest. against the decision of Federico Gutiérrez, mayor of Medellín, to demolish the building, to overthrow it, by an act which, according to him, goes beyond the symbolism, one of the foundations on which culture traqueta is maintained, which still considers Escobar a hero of the city. "Medellín embraces its history" is the name with which Fico christened the happy initiative with which he aspires to "disperse" the city. No more escobar to Medellín! And all thanks to the fact that an old building will make kaboom! and will be reduced to dust and debris.

Today, February 22, at 11 o'clock in the morning, the building of Monaco will be a historic place and Medellin, then, almost touched by the magic wand of a fairy, will leave behind his shameful past. Blot and new account, better said. Several doubts beset me: what does the mayor propose to Tomás Henao and to the thousands of Tomas who will cry their eyes because one of the places where his idol spent the night will disappear from the surface of planet earth? Maybe brainwashing, electroconvulsive therapy, neuronal reprogramming?

Someone who opens his eyes to understand that the collapse of a work
will not stop exploiting gunpowder with every new dawn
because the story, not to repeat it, must be shown, not covered

Someone who explains to Fico that the problem is not in the bricks, which go beyond that. Someone telling him that even today, 25 years after Escobar's death on this roof, thousands of young people from Medellin grew up believing they were not born by semilla and that's why they devoted themselves to hired killers, to "easy" money. Someone who makes you understand that the solution will never burn or disrupt the couch. Someone who opens his eyes to understand that with the collapse of a work will never stop exploding gunpowder with every new dawn, because the story, not to repeat it, must be shown and not dissimulated. Someone to take her to Auschwitz.

In the same nebula of Federico Gutiérrez Ivan Duque, the president of this beloved berenjenal we call the homeland. At the Center of Historical Memory, he has just named a denier of the Colombian armed conflict. It's like leaving NASA in the hands of a terraplanist or giving it the highest position in an ambitious project of paleontology and human evolution towards a subject that screams at the wounded lung: we have just come to # 39; Adam and Eve! The reason for such a grotesque is obvious, uribismo aims to rewrite history by adapting it to its interests and thus will not reveal the pbadages that leave its leaders, its rulers, to unemployment. Is there a difference between those who say that Pablo Escobar was good because he gave money to the poor and those who cover their mouths by saying that the so-called false positives were collateral damage to a laudable security policy or that the paramilitaries were out for the good of the people? town?

The "tapen tapen" is so macondiano that frankly I do not understand why so many people are crying in the sky when a Thomas appears. Yes, we know, it's not his fault, obviously, he's a child, all this shit is the responsibility of an indolent country that did not educate him, who did not train him, who left him at the mercy of narco-versa and a mafia culture … But why do we cross each other when we hear? As long as we choose negationist leaders who prefer to hide the horror under the rug and not to say it, do not expose it, do not expose it with all the hairs and the possible details so that it's all right. it never repeats itself, while Santillana tells the story rigged in his school books, although the truth is only a shrewd word of six letters and two syllables, as long as the president of the nation repeats it again and again, the most dubious, the most fearful and the most educated politician in the country, while continuing to educate human beings unable to read a text Here, the Tomás will reign or , as Diego Santos pointed out on Twitter, the morons.

@NanyPardo