The Misconception of Intelligence in Colombia’s President Petro.

The set of cognitive and behavioral skills to efficiently adapt to the environment that surrounds us, allowing us to reason, plan and solve problems, learning from experience, is one of the definitions in today’s world. Intelligence, according to the general concept, includes mental abilities such as; processing speed, verbal comprehension, logical agility and recursive memory. There are many and varied theories that indicate intelligence, not as a single capacity, but as a set of abilities and aptitudes, independent of one another. The person capable of choosing or choosing the best option among the possibilities that are available to him or her for the solution of a specific problem is intelligent. Difficult, therefore, to define this human dimension that we call intelligence. To agree, it is enough for us to maintain that it is the result of the mental processes of neurodevelopment, or the evolutionary moment of each person. All of the above gives us grounds to affirm without any equivocation that the person who was elected as President of the Colombians is not the intelligent person that many believe. An intelligent person is one thing and a skillful person is quite another, in the understanding that the latter is someone with great skill or skill to achieve an end or carry out an activity, prone, of course, to evil. And that has been his life. Formed not in the discipline of expensive values ​​but in the armed subversion that he embraced at an early age with the M-19, a movement that materialized operations of great impact, such as the theft of Bolívar’s sword in 1974, the murder of José Raquel Mercado in 1976, the theft of weapons from the North Canton in Bogotá in 1979, the seizure of the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in 1980, the holocaust of the Palace of Justice in 1985 and the kidnapping of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado in 1988, accurate blows that made of Petro a cold, calculating man and, above all, a personality prone to evil. In its manifestos, the M-19 expressed the desire for a truly participatory democracy without a Marxist reference. In the peace talks of 1989, the agreement that implied the laying down of arms and the right to political participation of the demobilized, was signed by President Virgilio Barco and Carlos Pizarro, who became a presidential candidate, being assassinated 47 days later. , giving way to the idea of ​​convening a National Constituent Assembly, which was achieved with the student initiative of the Seventh Ballot, obtaining the M-19 Democratic Alliance a considerable vote with the leadership of Antonio Navarro. Petro is elected Representative to the Chamber in 1991 and in 1994 he meets with Hugo Chávez just out of prison, for a Bolivarian event in Bogotá. He unsuccessfully aspires to return to the Chamber in 1994 and in 1998 he again achieves his election as Navarro’s second row, being re-elected in 2002, going to the Senate in 2006. Due to his persistence and above all, the opportunity, as he As we said in the previous column, he achieved the presidency by promising heaven and earth. Intelligent cannot be a leader who squanders his immense vote as shown by the Datexco survey, where he appears with a 61% disapproval for his inability to govern, repeating the same mistakes of the Bogotá Mayor’s Office. A leader cannot be intelligent, who, waving the flags of climate change, forces Ecopetrol to close hydrocarbon exploration, when in 2022 the state-owned company transferred to the nation for dividends, royalties and taxes, the sum of $42.4 billion, constituting in the engine of the Colombian economy, for being the largest generator of foreign income even above coffee. A president cannot be intelligent, who despite his long parliamentary career, misinterprets article 115 of the Constitution, as opposed to article 249 of the same, when he affirms that the Prosecutor is his employee. We already imagine the treatment he will give to the next Prosecutor he will have. A president who affirms: “Could it be that what Congress wants is war?” What kind of intelligence does he possess, when in order not to wear the tailcoat at the dinner offered by the Kings of Spain, he argued that it is an elitist garment, but he had no objection to traveling in a Rolls Royce that belonged to the dictator Francisco Franco, wearing his usual Ferragamos , which are not properly, neither the car nor the shoes of those below, with whom he says he identifies.