Colombia has been a particularly violent country. And it still is.From 1830 until today, it has been involved in 10 civil wars, leaving more than 400,000 people dead and 80,000 people missing, according to official figures. We have a violent culture, which resolves differences through conflict and not through dialogue.
During this past week, citizens were faced with a ghost from the past: the revelation that the National Army seems to be illegally intercepting different high profiles, from political officials to journalists and justices. The revelation was made by SEMANA magazine and has resulted in politicians stating the same old excuses of: "I did not know," "I found out today," and "nobody had said anything to me."
However, what SEMANA's revelation did was, once again, get us into a fairly common cycle: we are used to violence to the point that we focus on other things.
