Front-runner Ivan Duque chickens out of election debate

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema June 13, 2018

Colombia’s public TV networks have canceled Thursday’s debate between presidential candidates after the refusal of front-runner Ivan Duque to take part.

Duque’s refusal to confront his opponent, the leftist Gustavo Petro, has been fiercely criticized as it disallows voters to learn about the candidates’ proposals.

For the first time since 2006, when Duque’s political patron Alvaro Uribe also refused to take part in televised debates, the candidates will not confront each other on live television.

The campaign team of the conservative candidate defended the decision, claiming that Duque was not interested in responding to Petro’s criticism over the corruption practices and war crime allegations involving the political coalition supporting Duque.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/front-runner-ivan-duque-chickens-out-of-election-debate/

[Mike Rows His Boat]

1. Obviously, Chavistas must be blamed.

[GatoGordo]

2. Why blame the Chavistas?

If you insist upon assigning blame to the Chavistas for what is going on in Colombia, you can blame them for offering material, tactical and logistical support to Marxist terrorists who, for the last 52 years have had no qualms about murdering anyone (especially the rural poor folk) who won't pick up arms for them.

[Mike Rows His Boat]

3. Hahaha

Have to be a slick cat to get one by a fat one.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Without being munched, or exploited! n/t

[Judi Lynn]

4. Amazing, isn't it? Truly sad. Those damned Chavistas.

I imagine they are to be blamed for the Guarimbas, conceived by Cuban Venezuelan "exile" ( now hiding in South Florida ) Roberto Alonso.











(Named a community center after Alonso.)





Poor, poor racist, classist oligarchs and their absurd offspring, who have also thrown themselves into fighting the poor in order to get control back, as it used to be before Chavez. "Make Caracas great again."

[GatoGordo]

6. Whatever your strawman is guilty of, he isn't guilty of the following...

Brought to you by Karl Marx and his acolytes, Hugo Chavez and Nick Maduro.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Those photos look exactly like the kind of photos the "exile" community in Miami

used to claim were photos of conditions in Cuba 10 years or so ago. Small world.

[GatoGordo]

8. So, George Bush is starving babies to death in Venezuela?