Colombia - The Peace Accord Was a Mirage; The Drug Self Resurrects the Killing Fields
Event Baseline: Militias funded by cocaine trafficking are attacking civilians in Colombia, marking a resurgence of violence eight years after a historic peace deal with the FARC rebel group.
The state signed a piece of paper and called it peace, but the self that craves power and profit never dissolved. The drug trade is not just an economy; it's a manifestation of the greedy self, projecting its need for control onto territory and bodies. The peace accord was a thought experiment that ignored the underlying disease.
Now the militias return, because the psychological structure that breeds them was never dismantled. The government's inaction is not laziness; it's the same mechanical failure: the belief that a legal framework can replace the transformation of consciousness. You cannot outlaw the self.
Colombia will bleed again because the human operating system remains unchanged. The cycle will spin faster, and the corpses will pile higher, until the root—the illusion of the separate, predatory self—is seen and ended.