WorldcrunchSergio Ocampo Madrid was raised in Medellín, Colombia, in 1963. He studied Journalism and Psychology in Bogotá. He is currently a journalist who writes for Bogotá daily El Espectador.
The leaders of three big Latin American powers, Colombia, Brazil and Mexico, have shown they believe keeping a fellow socialist in power is more important than respecting the votes of millions of ordinary Venezuelans who chose freedom over socialism.
The recent outrage of Colombians online over a singer’s reported criticism of the country’s late, great novelist García Márquez, showed perfectly how jingoism and a primitive hatred of freedom go hand in hand.