After several years of preparation, The former president César Gaviria published the book “Entrelazados”, a text in which he tells the memoirs of his government.
In the publication, he delivers details of what was the murder of Luis Carlos Galán, talks about the behavior of the drug trafficking posters that operated at that timeof the administration of President Barco and the way he led the implementation of the Constituent of 1991.
“What we live was not just a democratic transition, it was a battle for the soul of Colombia (…) I remember the infamous and perverse behavior of the Medellín and Cali posters, as well as the deficiencies of the Colombian State to face the offensive of Escobar and the guerrillas ”are some of the sections that the book contains.
Gaviria describes Colombia of its time as a nation beaten by drug trafficking, guerrillas violence, state weakness, poverty and a backward economic model, a vision that describes from its point of view as mayor, Vice Minister, Minister of Finance and then as president of the Republic.
On Luis Carlos Galán, he affirms that his appointment as head of Debate consolidated his political careerbut delivered some details of what the magnicide was.
“That April 1989, when I accepted the Headquarters of Debate of the presidential campaign of Luis Carlos Galán, he was far from imagining that we were waiting for such aciagos and difficult days (…) Already towards July 1989, Galán sensed his death and began to consider that the change in his security scheme was a conspiracy to kill him (…) Going to Soacha was not a simple or mechanical act. It was a delivery. The truth is that it was, even knowing that it entered a labyrinth without exit, ”he says.
“With the death of Galán, they intended to kill a hope of renewal and change, but thanks to their legacy the country did not cowardly and faced it with votes,” adds the ex -president.
César Gaviria said that Galán’s death “aroused a whole generation of young people who, with the seventh ballot, promoted the National Constituent Assembly”whose process ended in the drafting of the new Constitution of 91, which is the one that governs us today.
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“Never as our democracy was at that time. We had to build a justice capable of punishing criminals and vigorous participatory democracy for new generations,” says Gaviria.
Although he admits that mistakes could have been made in the exercise of his political career and exercise as president of the Republicthe only head of the Liberal Party ensures that the decisions were made under huge pressures and challenges at that time.
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