Wednesday, July 21, 2010    Today Colombia marked in grand pomp
its own bicentennial, in a much better prepared way, more
meaningful than whatever Chavez did on the run last April 19. 
Since there has to be a military parade, Colombia did one,
dignified, complete, of a victorious and proud army, not the
circus of the corrupted army that Venezuela now has.  In
addition the event was Colombia wide, with concerts everywhere
and other cultural and historical activities, not like in
Venezuela where everything was limited to a quick repainting of
a few streets and an over-dimensioned and over-ridicule parade.
If I bring this to collation it is because both Uribe and Santos
are the creators of that mood in Colombia, where investments
boom, where the world economic crisis is now a memory, now that
trust in a better future has come.  Thinking that the
extraordinary work that these two men have done could be undone
on a mere FARC-Venezuela caprice is ridiculous.  Uribe started
the process but when Santos finally becam