Héctor Abad Gómez *
violence, like every human phenomenon, born of our animal selves. It is in our minds - made up of all that has influenced her, gender and environment from birth - where the decision arises from any action violent.
If we clear this basic principle, we can analyze violence, not only through our history, but throughout human history. As we know, the violence erupted with the great transformation that about ten thousand years occurred in all regions of our planet, now called the Agricultural Revolution. We start killing the possession of the land. And we keep killing the same thing. Of course, more and more often in disguised form, tribalism, religion, ideology, economic dominance. And always behind it, the lust for power of any human group. Consider the history of our country. The indigenous groups fighting for their territory until the English arrived with the cross and the sword, horses and muskets and seized it by force and the Creoles, with Bolívar at the head, also threw the English force and we become in five nations. That if we are not careful, we start to fight and kill for oil and coal for the Yankees. They provide us, vendiéndonoslas course, the weapons we want.
would be much more efficient way of violence, which is just now, national and international to return. Much better deal yet.
While other major tragedy that is not present, follow analyzing which so far has lived and continues to suffer the Colombian nation.
After the war of independence, civil wars and then killing the banana to eat bananas cheaper citizens of industrialized countries.
And in 1930, political change, the struggle for dominance of the landowners in the Santanderes and in 1948, a President, assisted by some pulpits, in Boyacá, Tolima, Antioquia and Valle preached that killing as before Moors ("not a sin to kill liberals"). And today, the anticommunist crusade led by the Pentagon and the CIA, to "save Western civilization."
All this, complicated by the dollars that are beyond U.S. banks to buy cocaine here. And there is so much poverty in Medellin, you can hire for two thousand dollars to a hitman to kill anyone.
These are the details. In the background is education, we have received through recent human history. I say "recent," because during the first ninety thousand years of "Homo Sapiens", before the Agricultural Revolution, the ten million people who existed on earth, did not need "education" and felt they were equal and had everything they wanted was primitive common wealth that some anthropologists speak.
Now, with five billion people who populate this planet is another story. We live in a violent time.
This violence is born of the feeling of inequality. We could not have violence, if all the wealth-including science, technology and the moral--those great human creations, they were better spread on the ground.
This is the great challenge before us today, not only to us but to all humanity.
If, for example, the great powers left to Colombia, or much better, united Latin America, seek their own outputs, we would be much better. But this dream is now a non-violent exercise, before any great accomplishment. The realization that humanity may make a sound mind, that one day, during the next ten thousand years will our descendants, whether now or later we are not self-destruct.
* Last column Héctor Abad Gómez, written the day of his death and posthumously published as editorial in El Mundo, August 26, 1987.
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