Colombia’s ‘last war’ a massive pillow fight?
Colombia’s ‘last war’ a massive pillow fight?
written by Adriaan Alsema May 17, 2016
Former Colombia presidential candidate Antanas Mockus, known for his irreverent and unconventional approach to politics, is organizing a massive pillow fight to symbolically fight Colombia’s “Last War.”
The proposal to massively attack each other with pillows comes at a time that peace talks with the FARC, Colombia’s largest rebel group, have reached their final phase and talks with the ELN, the country’s second largest rebel group, set to begin.
To support efforts to bring peace to Colombia after more than half a century of war, Mockus announced that on Thursday, 4PM he has scheduled to fight “Colombia’s last war, the pillow war.”
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Mockus, a mathematician and philosopher, has maintained a reconciliatory tone and distance from both Uribe and Santos, both likely to face war crime charges once a post-conflict transitional justice system is put in place.
The quirky former Bogota mayor ran against Santos in 2010, but lost. He has since been a staunch supporter of the peace talks and even offered to help the FARC form a political party if they decide to renounce violence as a means to obtain political goals.
http://colombiareports.com/colombias-last-war-massive-pillow-fight/
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