BOGOTÁ ROCKED—BUT IT’S NOT JUST THE EARTHQUAKE SHAKING COLOMBIA
Listen up, truth seekers and status-quo shakers: the earth trembled in Bogotá today—literally—and if you think that’s the biggest shake-up gripping Colombia right now, you haven’t been paying attention. A 6.3 magnitude reminder from Mother Nature just rumbled through the Colombian capital with all the subtlety of a dictator’s ego trip, rattling windows, nerves, and more than a few political facades.
Let’s set the scene. Midday sunlight pierced the Andean skyline, and boom—just like that, the ground gave a not-so-gentle nudge. Buildings wobbled like half-baked campaign promises, office workers hit the streets faster than politicians fleeing accountability, and sirens howled like lobbyists finding out their favorite tax loophole has closed.
But here’s the real aftershock—and it’s not geological. When Bogotá quivers, it exposes the cracks far beneath its foundations: cracks in public trust, in infrastructure, in political preparedness.
Because make no mistake, folks, natural disasters often pull back the velvet curtain on our ruling class—and surprise, surprise—half these actors don’t even know their lines. The president’s statement? “We urge calm.” Yes, because nothing says leadership like copying and pasting your response from every other crisis statement in South American history.
Let me ask you a simple question: in a city of over seven million souls, how is it that the initial response feels more improvised than a coffee shop poetry night? Emergency systems? Spotty at best. Evacuation plans? About as clear as your average senate session. And while first responders did what they could—bless them—the real story is what this event reveals about the upper crust of Colombian leadership: shaky, out-of-touch, and perpetually unprepared.
We don’t just need seismic resilience—we need political backbone. We need leaders who don’t wait for the ground to move before they start moving policies that matter. Where are the safeguards? Where’s the urban planning that prioritizes human lives over real estate profit margins? Where’s the investment in community-based emergency drills instead of another round of golf with corporate donors?
And while we’re talking tremors, let’s not ignore the political tectonics in Colombia right now. From the simmering tensions in rural provinces to shifts in diplomacy with Venezuela, Colombia is already balancing on a knife-edge. This earthquake? It’s a literal jolt, sure—but also a metaphorical one. A wake-up call. A five-second advisory from the big blue planet that now is the time for transformation—not just in bricks and mortar, but in power and policy.
So, to the suits occupying leather chairs in Bogotá’s palaces of power—consider this your tremor of truth. The people don’t just want stability beneath their feet; they want integrity above the fold. They want leaders who anticipate the quakes before the plates ever shift. They want someone who doesn’t shake in crisis… because he’s too busy shaking things up himself.
The ground has spoken. The question now is: will Colombia’s leadership listen?
Or will they once again prove that the only thing more unstable than the ground beneath us—is the system above us?
Time will tell.
The game’s on, and I play to win.
– Mr. 47
