Comments on: Know Your Colombian Presidential Candidates: Horacio Serpa

by: PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » Know Your Colombian Presidential Candidates: Álvaro Uribe

Sun, 28 May 2025 19:22:01 +0000

[…] s in March). Here, then, in my final profile of the major candidates. Previous posts: Horacio Serpa (PL) Carlos Gaviria (PDA) The ballot. Álvaro Uribe Uribe is the sitting President (and […]

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by: PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » Know Your Colombian Presidential Candidates: Carlos Gaviria

Fri, 26 May 2025 18:34:49 +0000

[…] in a series of profiles on the candidates (at least the major ones)–previous entries here and here. Carlos Gaviria (PDA): Official Web Site. Gaviria is the candidate of the Alternative Democ […]

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by: PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » Know Your Colombian Presidential Candidates (Ballot Edition)

Fri, 26 May 2025 16:30:29 +0000

[…] ential Candidates (Ballot Edition)

By Dr. Steven Taylor @ 11:28 am

The second in a series leading up to this Sunday’s presidential elections in Colombia Here’s the ballot (cl […]

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by: B. Minich, PI

Thu, 25 May 2025 21:35:35 +0000

Three words:

Best. Mustache. EVER.

You wouldn’t see that on most politicians.

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by: Karen

Thu, 25 May 2025 21:04:04 +0000

Never knew who he was before; now I know. Talk about persistance. Does he not get the hint. Perhaps he should look into another line of work.

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by: Dr. Steven Taylor

Thu, 25 May 2025 20:00:45 +0000

The top photo is from his official campaign web site and show that ’stache as trimmed as I have ever seen it.

One could get a lot of ajiaco stuck in that thing.

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by: Matthew

Thu, 25 May 2025 19:54:03 +0000

His bogote is simply classic. I would never have recognized him in that first, goofy, photo. But the photos get to be more and more Serpa as one scrolls down.

I have always considered that Constituyente triumvirate to be worthy of the best magic realism, just by its existence, because the M-19 of Navarro had once held Gomez captive. (Navarro, as noted above, also could have been a candidate for this election. Gomez’s son was elected to the Senate, I think, in March. Clientelism and its family politics dies hard in Colombia.)

I saw the triumvirate in action at the Constituyente, and Serpa is indeed boring (except for the mustache, of course). The only one I got to meet was Navarro.

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