that broke the camel’s back. A commentary by the Colombian journalist Hernando Calvo Ospina. Colombia’s system of government has been at permanent war with its people since the beginning of the 19th century. It began as soon as the Venezuelan Simón Bolivar left power in Bogotá, when he found himself betrayed and to be assassinated. Among other things, he had brought freedom to Colombia, fighting with his troops of ragged braves, almost all of them Venezuelans, until the Spanish crown was driven out. Prior to any other state in Latin America, Colombia’s political leadership and Cathol...