Not really, I mean she could, but these 3 years she has been rather inactive and frankly, kinda useless

IMO if a real bloc was built with Venezuela and Colombia, that would basically mean Colombia becoming socialist (which is really not plausible right now lmao). That said I would have said it was impossible a couple years ago but right now, its very unlikely but not impossible. Things are a bit better, but could definitely get worse lol.

It would make it hard for the US to coup either country, because as an example, all coup attempts at Venezuela are launched from Colombia.

Petro is still very popular but, 2 reasons:

1. Colombia has reelections but the same person can’t be re-elected back to back so he would have to appoint a candidate to run. Problem is, the candidates he usually picks are dogshit. Like uninspiring, or even with cases of being misogynistic and abusive. We lost the city elections because of that. He really doesn’t want to consider a better candidate to run, but the party is yet to appoint one so we’ll see.
2. The mainstream media has been unrelenting in the campaign against him, and the political center has been moving away from him. As you might guess they are scared of spooky scary authoritarianism and the such. So it’s likely that those votes will end up to a charismatic right wing leader. That said, there is no clear right wing candidate with a chance to win either, so who knows. Things are still up in the air right now.

Funny but not really, Bolivar might have built the Gran Colombia, but Bolivarianism is more about joining all of Central/South America. What is called the Patria Grande or great fatherland, against imperialism.

We tend to romanticize the classical romans and greeks so much and forget that these societies were very small in size and economy in comparison to 1700s. Their material development was not advanced enough to develop steam machinery, which would’ve seemed futuristic by their standards.

As to why did Europe win the race to industrialziation? I tend to think of it as a combination of external events and random chance.

As a Colombian the idea of a new Gran Colombia is very fringe in the mainstream, and honestly not very useful in my opinion. Bolivarianism is much more useful, but kinda hard to put it in the mainstream because it is associated with Chavismo and FARC-EP.

But Colombia improving relations with Venezuela and China is a very good step in the right direction. And signing the BRI yesterday is based as hell.

We’ll see what happens on the elections next year. But it is more likely than not that we get a right wing government, but we’ll see.

Ultimately and most importantly, though, if the Palestinians haven’t given up yet then I sure as hell am not going to give up on them.

Thanks for the reminder

What keeps y’all going wrt Palestine? Cause honestly I’m starting to take the black pill. My head can’t really wrap around why this is being let happen like that.

Especially disappointed at China and Vietnam that enable the genocide while having power to do more.

Like are we really just gonna let them all die huh?