INTERVIEW

INTERVIEW

1.Who is Jaime Garzón?

You do not know who he is, you know who is not. That is, one, for example, is not as friendly as the Sánchez Cristo, is not as honest as the president of the republic, is not as accomplished as President Gaviria, have better health than the pope, it is not so kind and Brown beautiful as Pilar. One really does not know who one is the consistency of what is not others.

2.Does the humor is the only way for journalism to political criticism?

I think so, because it is not committed. It is a space in which laughter and no understanding of what that allows it to be interpreted in several ways. Then do not assaulted. Woody Allen said that if you tell the truth and do not kill him laugh; If you tell the truth and makes me laugh is softer, smoother enters.

3.Does the humor is the only way for journalism to political criticism?

I think so, because it is not committed. It is a space in which laughter and no understanding of what that allows it to be interpreted in several ways. Then do not assaulted. Woody Allen said that if you tell the truth and do not kill him laugh; If you tell the truth and makes me laugh is softer, smoother enters.

4..How resist Zoociedad think?

Well, I'm not as Carlos Muñoz counting his appearances, but I think 52 is good, ie one year.

5.And to continue in what?

I will continue with my political future.

6.What about the paramilitaries?

The paramilitaries are the clear demonstration that between traditional State and crime is a silent pact.

7.Do politicians do not represent the citizens?

Initially it was supposed to represent political interests, then divided ... how old is that Congress is still divided between those who have land, and those people who have money, that was in 1700 and peak in France, and we still have it.


8.So what do they do there?

It is assumed that the types represent people, per number of people there was a guy who spoke for them. But it was such helplessness and disunity, separation and antagonism between society represented and representative, that he has been left alone and left alone with some who choose it and keep it. Others are in daily work, in life, in the tax, in the daily work, we separate from that State is not ours. Then they turned it into a personal booty and inherit and use and all that ... and has not aqueduct Barranquilla and Santa Marta has not aqueduct. There are things as absurd as they are born in the Sierra Nevada and Santa Marta 75 rivers have no water supply; It is as simple as picking up a tube, plunge it into a river and bring it down to a pool, but there is no budget, there has always been spent on other things.

9.Or is that money is spend it on what does not touch?

For elections budget millions of dollars are spent. In budget of weapons, only in 1993, in January, we have spent a million and a half dollars by buying the British army weapons to us. Spent 10,500 million pesos have him escort to people who need escorts, you imagine what would we do with 10,500 million pesos for infrastructure works in schools, in all that? We lose a third of oil production oil trouble solving because broken pipes, supposedly the oil is not used in the welfare of the people. It is an organizational issue, right? I think this administration should take a lady, women know more than management, would not

10.What do you think of being Colombian?

Be Colombian to us means having a terrible cunning and almost always misused. We are astutísimos, we are the best forgers in the world, we are compatriots manager of the world's largest illegal company and no one has been able to take, we are compatriots of the wealthiest politicians and the national budget in the world, and we have not caught.


11.And with some of the people he has sucked them rooster, did you have problems?

Yes. The Rodriguez Orejuela brothers also have very good my concept. In addition, Colombian lies we tell ourselves. Cali they sent a letter saying how we could think of to put on the agenda a Cali drug trafficker. And then what a pity, but we did not invent the Cali cartel, nor the conflict. That's true, that exists there. Colombian ... seems one mirror and puts them scared, they bother to look in the mirror.

Source:

- Interview of Social Communication student after his lecture at the Universidad Autonoma de Occidente (Cali, February 14, 1997).

- Talks with Pacheco (1997).

- "Speak Jaime Garzón," by Roberto Romero Ospina (Voice Weekly, July 18, 1991).

- The retreaded (airing in 2010, cited 1993).

- File Summary El Tiempo, published as a tribute (El Tiempo, January 20, 2005).


- "Brush on the street". Mauricio Silva interview Heriberto de la Calle (El Tiempo, April 12, 1998).