Mercurial

Reading Scotts' post about King of the Mountain, a book about the influence of cycling in the social fabric of Colombia, how it united the country and made evident the relationships between regions.
I remember reading a little article about it many years ago, when the originator of the Vuelta a Colombia passed away, and how it was part of the general effort to bring the country out of the immense pain that the Violencia had brought upon it.
The nation, of course, has not recovered from that: Drug trafficking became just one more of the facets by which the lack of credibility on the system manifested itself, responding to the incredible drug demand coming from the USA and based on the lack of future, or better, the perceived lack of possibilities that affects a huge section of the population. If there is no future, there is no moral compulsion.
Perhaps that is why this book might be worth reading, to identify a strategy that effectively worked, to focus on unifying processes and ideas, to elaborate a long term strategy of bringing everybody together, while respecting their own space.