Colombia election: One view of what is at stake http://blogs.aljazeera.net/americas/2010/05/26/colombia-election-one-view-what-stake

displacement has been growing a lot, poverty and extreme poverty, too. Seventeen per cent of Colombians live in the streets. It’s extreme poverty. Forty-six per cent of Colombians are poor or extremely poor. And inequality has grown dramatically in our country.The country has reached a point where we cannot stand another scandal. Especially since the amount of scandals in this government have gone over the reasonable limits.

Every government has a scandal; politics is the exercise of reality. However it’s very difficult to stand the scandals that have hit this country. We cannot stand this anymore. You can feel it all around. People might feel some certain sympathies for the efforts of our president, President Uribe, but we are all fed up with all those scandals