Caquistocracy, according to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), is defined as a government led by the incapable or the worst.
The repeated events such as what happened with the Pan American Games and the loss of Barranquilla as their venue for 2027, demonstrate that the current national government is a caquistocracy, where daily situations indicate that there can hardly be officials more incompetent than those who Today they occupy the highest positions in the state, headed by the president himself.
Nothing strange, in fact it is common for the useless to govern countries, history shows that the inept often win elections over the capable. The idea of rational voting and the wisdom of the people to elect is a tall tale, it is common that those who have the least aptitudes are chosen, since for the common voters it is a priority to choose the one who sells illusions, over the one who is ready to turn them into reality.
With Petro, something similar to what was postulated in the Peter principle is evident. It is indisputable that the mere fact of having been a good senator, who carried out great debates, did not necessarily make him a good president. That is to say, his capacity in the legislative branch of public power did not qualify him for the executive branch, much less when his record as mayor of Bogotá demonstrated his ineptitude as a ruler.
To the above we must add the dogmatism with which he governs, his ideas regarding the preponderance of the public over the private or the contempt for businessmen, lead to a kind of delirium about how the country should be governed, with a very distant story. of reality.
As was obvious, he surrounded himself with others like him, inept and dogmatic, a true applause committee, where technical concepts are rejected and anyone who proclaims them is considered suspicious. There is no one who dislikes an inept person more than the one who points out his mistakes and exposes his incompetence.
Kaquistocracy is not necessarily better than kleptocracy, that is, the government of thieves, the serious thing is that the national government is combining them, and corruption scandals and indelicacies in the management of public affairs are beginning to surface.
It is difficult to know how this caquistocracy will end, but there is not the slightest doubt that we will do everything possible to elect someone worse in 2026, because we love to live on illusions and we reject anyone who dares to show us without adornment the reality that for sport we refuse.
