Colombia and Petro's political-energy chaos
Petro is balancing between trying to negotiate with “Santismo” and a section of some of the parties prone to the corruption of the "mermelada" to gain control of important bodies such as the Procuraduría and thus influence the renewal of the Constitutional Court and other bodies that could be key to his political future, which does not look good surrounded by many corruption scandals, and mobilising his electoral base and related social movements, victimising himself before the alleged existence of a "coup" or an "assassination attempt" (a classic move of Latin American authoritarian rulers). If this were the only problem in Colombia, all would be relatively well, but the situation is not good and serious crises are still looming with a Petro lost in his political-emotional labyrinth. These crises are: 1) electricity, 2) social conflict that threatens food security, 3) the failure of total peace. On the energy front, Colombia faces the possibility of e...