Where is Paloma Valencia, and why is she not appearing at such a crucial historical moment?
By Luis Alberto Villamarín Pulido On the night of her shameful, though anticipated and obvious, defeat at the polls—a defeat stemming from her physical and mental limitations—to serve as president of the republic, an aspirational desire fueled by an enormous ego and a fanciful assumption of leadership, Ms. Paloma Valencia appeared before the media to express her undying love and full support for the winner of the first round. But after that night, Ms. Valencia vanished from the political scene. She's nowhere to be seen... Is this the result of her immense, crushed ego? Or is it because, after revealing her true colors during the campaign, having declared herself a moralistic champion, she ended up mired in the same political decay as Santos, Uribe, Samper, Petro, and others, who usually ally themselves with Satan himself to reach heaven... just as bad as, or even worse than, the corrupt communists. The truth is that Paloma Valencia and her messianic mentor, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, know—however much they deny it—that by prioritizing the return of votes over electoral viability, they not only torpedoed the opposition's victory in the first round but also gave Petro's corrupt supporters the opportunity to commit fraud in the second round, which wouldn't be surprising. With this attitude, Ms. Paloma Valencia practically buried the Democratic Center as a party capable of garnering votes in every election. Just as Rafael Pardo Rueda did to bury the Liberal Party, and Martha Lucía Ramírez did to bury the Conservative Party.