That's barely the cherry on top, really.
De la Espriella's board purposefully refused to conduct a transition between administrations as lawfully ordered because Petro's government decided to show all fully allocated and spare funds for all ministries and state bureaus on live TV for everybody to see, so newly elected officials would have no way to lay claims on received deficits stemming from speculations on corruption the way they've kept stating they would all along this year.
This meant the incoming board to assume functions in both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Unidad Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos y Desastres ("UNGRD" for short, translating to "National Unit for Risk and Disaster Management") deliberately neglected their duty to carry out thorough inventorying to keep governance working so as to avoid the overbureaucratisation and cost overruns on critical areas they claimed the former government had failed to reach optimal operability, like welfare distribution depending on bilateral and multilateral deals already agreed upon and underway with foreign governments and trade organisations to balance trade development with proportional social expenditure to alleviate the lack of development on the means of production across regions the oligarchy (who now back de la Espriella's administration) have long neglected.
Without duly reviewing any of it, the newly appointed united stater ambassador to Colombia stated de la Espriella's government would nullify Colombia's involvement in Chinese-led Silk Road agreements in order to begin paying back the sponsorship Trump's government lend to de las Espriella's campaign through their foreign policies (the so-called "Donroe" Doctrine) and "keep Communism at bay", after which the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced they now back the Moroccan occupation of the República Saharauí and the zionist occupation of both Palestine and the Syrian Golan Heights. Clauses on mutual cooperation have been effectively broken: both Syria and Morocco are part of the Silk Road initiative, but the Colombian government have adopted policies that undermine the principle of mutual territorial sovereignty recognition underlying all international treaties (as per the Vienna Convention, which is the basis of all multilateral treaties like the Silk Road initiative), and by extension, of mutual cooperation (not that I personally believe the International Law-based Order™ has got any actually developmental value. But for a government that take so much pride from their very onset in upholding the very same Western Liberal status quo that brought it up, they're definitely doing a piss poor job at, on the very least, enacting any extent of clout to pretend to abide by it).
Yesterday morning, a 7,4 Richter Scale earthquake took place along the Colombian Pacific region, causing widespread deaths and damage on four major cities including the country's third largest one, Cali. Just as this happened, de la Espriella and his vice-president José Manuel Restrepo overslept on their newly appointed posts after taking part in Fiesta de las Flores parties in Medellín with Antioquia's governor and Medellín's mayor, without having yet de-facto appointed anybody to take charge of the UNGRD and taking up to eight hours to assign any provisional representatives to attend the emergency, not having sent any to the actual epicentre (San José del Palmar, a town with a population of a few less than 6000, most of whom are African-Colombians long marginalised by the oligarchy) almost 20 hours into the aftermath. When they finally arrived at Cali, instead of getting to tend to the emergency immediately, de la Espriella called on a press meeting to explain himself and greet and blow kisses on the attendants.
Only during his first weekend as president, cops attacked and extrajudicially detained unarmed protestors demonstrating against his election during the inaugural session, the national army opened fire on civilians, forest fires have raged all across the most forested regions outside of the Colombian side of the Amazonian Basin (most of them quite probably caused on purpose), and the most intense earthquake to have taken place in the country in decades crippled the four largest cities on the country's West (Cali, Quibdó, Manizales, and Pereira; two of them being part of the four —the latter two, along with Armenia (also greatly affected) and Ibagué— comprising the labour and commercial backbone for the main Coffee-producing region the Colombian bourgeoisie take so much pride in as well). And the wanker spent it all partying in Medellín (my work-worshipping, fascist home city, for anybody out there who didn't yet know where this was typed down from).
His government have had to backtrack on both of these policies: the Petro government's most recent UNGRD director had to resume his post to co-ordinate the management and efforts tending to the sheer scale of the emergency, as neither the newly appointed one nor any other officials from de la Espriella's board have got the specialised experience necessary to do so on notice; and they had to accept Chinese assistance to manage the situation nevertheless.
This is our picture for, at least, the next four years. We've got no international Communist hegemon backing any Communist movements here because the Chinese government are not the mid 20th century Soviet government, they don't promote Communism anywhere other than within their own frontiers and at a very ambiguously gradual degree of dialectical development. We've got no Free World™-sponsored opening Liberal bonanza because there's never been such a thing anywhere at any extent but as a fiction. And we've got no substantial development of the means of production vis à vis European Social Democracy supporting Palestinians at international institutional level because the only such-seeming government we've ever had spent four years struggling against a systemically organised congressional bourgeois bloc sabotaging most of their major law and reform proposals, to no avail except for moderate labour law reforms now lacking executive support.
An absolute bunch of aspirational dandy rubbish, أَسْتَغْڢِرُ ٱللَّٰه.
