The Fall of Bogotá
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:26 pm
"A coup with support is bloodless. A coup without it, is a civil war. That's the problem my great predecessors failed to realize, and what ultimately doomed them, twice in the span of a hundred years. It was paramount that popular support was acquired first. It wasn't particularly hard, as it turned out most of the people in this forsaken land had been quietly praying that, after 3 generations of weaklings, a new Buendía would relight the torch of our family legacy, and ignite the fires of revolution that brought Colombia greatness, before the neoliberal swines subjugated here glory and spirit for the sake of their own enrichment. The army had had enough of the Marquéz government as well. Bribing them with new toys and higher salaries only goes so far, once the soldiers and officers hear how you talk of them behind your back, how you disrespect them at private parties with millionaire and billionaire donors, and how you plan to replace their influence in the nation with that of the Panamanian business cartels. It truly was lightning in a bottle, the perfect storm that would end this half century of fraudulent "peace", and return leadership of Colombia to its rightful holder - the people.
I am coronel Aureliano Gabriel Buendía, they call me 'Aurelito'. I am the 6th generation direct, oldest male descendent of José Aureliano Buendía - President of Colombia between 1892 and 1922 and the nephew and adopted son of Arcadio Buendía, the only son of the great father of Colombia, coronel Aureliano Buendía. My family is interwoven with the history of Colombia like no other, it is synonymous with power and prestige in this country. They say Bolívar laid the foundation, but the Buendías built a palace. Four consecutive generation of the Buendía clan ruled Colombia from 1892 to 1968, when a military coup, orchestrated by the disgusting neoliberal conservative-liberal coalition under command of the Marquéz family removed us from power. For fifty long years they have exacerbated the differences between Colombia's poor and wealthy, favored business interest over Colombia's rural and urban poor and put the economy in the hands of abusive pigs, who molested it for their own greed and benefit. After decades of repression, the people of Colombia have chosen me to reclaim their divine right."
In the early morning hours of an ordinary February day, members of the army formed multiple cordons around the capital city of Bogotá. Across the country the military would occupy key strategic locations, border crossings, political hubs and buildings, and infrastructure. Members of the navy would occupy and take over running the Panama Canal, though aside from a minor hiccup in the morning, transit through the canal would not be disrupted. Police forces across the nation would be warned to stand down. Eventually all traffic out of Bogotá would be halted.
Towards noon, the military would capture a prominent television station in the Bogotá area and would transmit a message announcing the end of 'the Marquéz dictatorship.' Soon, tens of thousands of people would flood the streets of the capital, having received the message that their promised liberation had finally begun. Around half past one in the afternoon, the government of the United States of Colombia would release an official statement, announcing that the 'stable, democratic institutions of the Republic are under attack by vile powers, that seek to end half a century of peace in Colombia,' calling on the international community to refuse recognition of any new government that would emerge in the wake of the coup, seemingly accepting their fate and realizing there was no possible way to stop the inevitable. Government employees and the handful of loyal police and military personnel that remained would begin barricading themselves in key government buildings in Bogotá, as they steadily received news that other regional governments had fallen to the perpetrators.
At three o'clock, the doors of the Capitolio Nacional and Casa de Nariño would burst open, as military personnel would flood in. A few would resist, but most government officials would recognize it better to surrender than to attempt resistance. Fifteen minutes after they entered the Capitolio, soldiers would escort a handcuffed President Hernan Marquéz onto the Plaza de Bolívar to the tune of cheers, sneers and jeers from the public, which would proceed to throw food, shoes, rocks, and anything else you could think of at the ousted president. Moments later, coronel Aureliano Gabriel Buendía would appear atop the Capitolio Nacional's pavilion facing the Plaza, ready to address the crowd assembled below.
"Gente de Colombia! Your days of torture are over!" The crowd would erupt in cheers.
"Fifty-four long years have passed, since the Marquéz family stabbed our proud nation in the back, dragged its dagger from neck to tail, and sold our insides for pennies to their black market handlers. Half a century of humiliation, repression, intimidation, Colombia, ends, today!"
"As we speak, the armies of the Republic are securing the nation and hunting down any remnants of the treacherous entrenched government, who will, by the right of God, and the will of the People, be brought to justice for their disgusting deeds. Soon, liberty will be restored, democracy reborn, and Colombia raised from the ashes to again lead the Latin American world in the spirit of the revolution of Simón Bolívar and Colonel Aureliano Buendía!"
"Remember what you have seen here today, people of Colombia, you have witnessed history, you have witnessed revolution, you have witnessed the rebirth of the Republic! From now until the end of days, the United States of Colombia will never again be a nation of serfs and slaves!"
Three slogans to finish the short speech would be echoed by monumental cheers and applause.
"Viva Colombia!"
"Viva la República!"
"Y viva el Partido Socialista!"
In the late afternoon, the new provisional government, operating under the name 'the Provisional Council for the Administration, Governance and Transition of Colombia', would release a short public statement, addressed primarily to the international community to prevent fallout in diplomatic relations, though also aimed as a calming word for any Colombians worried about what the epilogue to the fall of Bogotá may bring.
"The provisional government of the United States of Colombia would like to make it crystal clear, there is no intent by any leading or otherwise members of the government, economy or armed forces, to prolong the transitional government longer than it needs to be, nor to assert an anti-democratic political system in the United States. The events that have unfolded over the past 24 hours come solely as a result of fifty years of intimidation and repression at the hands of an aggressively corrupt government under the leadership of Francisco and Hernan Marquéz, who curtailed the freedoms and liberties of the people of Colombia for the sake of enriching themselves, their family, friends and business interests. The Provisional Council has already confirmed at its first regular session, shortly after the Chairman's address in the afternoon, that within six months a full round of free and fair general elections will be held. Until then the Council will work to perform all required functions to keep the lives of the people of Colombia on track, and to continue all international and foreign affairs obligations of the United States, and will apply its best efforts to stabilizing the nation in the wake of a sudden change of power."
Signed,
Temporary Chairman of the Provisional Council for the Administration, Governance and Transition of Colombia,
Col. Aureliano Gabriel Buendía
I am coronel Aureliano Gabriel Buendía, they call me 'Aurelito'. I am the 6th generation direct, oldest male descendent of José Aureliano Buendía - President of Colombia between 1892 and 1922 and the nephew and adopted son of Arcadio Buendía, the only son of the great father of Colombia, coronel Aureliano Buendía. My family is interwoven with the history of Colombia like no other, it is synonymous with power and prestige in this country. They say Bolívar laid the foundation, but the Buendías built a palace. Four consecutive generation of the Buendía clan ruled Colombia from 1892 to 1968, when a military coup, orchestrated by the disgusting neoliberal conservative-liberal coalition under command of the Marquéz family removed us from power. For fifty long years they have exacerbated the differences between Colombia's poor and wealthy, favored business interest over Colombia's rural and urban poor and put the economy in the hands of abusive pigs, who molested it for their own greed and benefit. After decades of repression, the people of Colombia have chosen me to reclaim their divine right."
In the early morning hours of an ordinary February day, members of the army formed multiple cordons around the capital city of Bogotá. Across the country the military would occupy key strategic locations, border crossings, political hubs and buildings, and infrastructure. Members of the navy would occupy and take over running the Panama Canal, though aside from a minor hiccup in the morning, transit through the canal would not be disrupted. Police forces across the nation would be warned to stand down. Eventually all traffic out of Bogotá would be halted.
Towards noon, the military would capture a prominent television station in the Bogotá area and would transmit a message announcing the end of 'the Marquéz dictatorship.' Soon, tens of thousands of people would flood the streets of the capital, having received the message that their promised liberation had finally begun. Around half past one in the afternoon, the government of the United States of Colombia would release an official statement, announcing that the 'stable, democratic institutions of the Republic are under attack by vile powers, that seek to end half a century of peace in Colombia,' calling on the international community to refuse recognition of any new government that would emerge in the wake of the coup, seemingly accepting their fate and realizing there was no possible way to stop the inevitable. Government employees and the handful of loyal police and military personnel that remained would begin barricading themselves in key government buildings in Bogotá, as they steadily received news that other regional governments had fallen to the perpetrators.
At three o'clock, the doors of the Capitolio Nacional and Casa de Nariño would burst open, as military personnel would flood in. A few would resist, but most government officials would recognize it better to surrender than to attempt resistance. Fifteen minutes after they entered the Capitolio, soldiers would escort a handcuffed President Hernan Marquéz onto the Plaza de Bolívar to the tune of cheers, sneers and jeers from the public, which would proceed to throw food, shoes, rocks, and anything else you could think of at the ousted president. Moments later, coronel Aureliano Gabriel Buendía would appear atop the Capitolio Nacional's pavilion facing the Plaza, ready to address the crowd assembled below.
"Gente de Colombia! Your days of torture are over!" The crowd would erupt in cheers.
"Fifty-four long years have passed, since the Marquéz family stabbed our proud nation in the back, dragged its dagger from neck to tail, and sold our insides for pennies to their black market handlers. Half a century of humiliation, repression, intimidation, Colombia, ends, today!"
"As we speak, the armies of the Republic are securing the nation and hunting down any remnants of the treacherous entrenched government, who will, by the right of God, and the will of the People, be brought to justice for their disgusting deeds. Soon, liberty will be restored, democracy reborn, and Colombia raised from the ashes to again lead the Latin American world in the spirit of the revolution of Simón Bolívar and Colonel Aureliano Buendía!"
"Remember what you have seen here today, people of Colombia, you have witnessed history, you have witnessed revolution, you have witnessed the rebirth of the Republic! From now until the end of days, the United States of Colombia will never again be a nation of serfs and slaves!"
Three slogans to finish the short speech would be echoed by monumental cheers and applause.
"Viva Colombia!"
"Viva la República!"
"Y viva el Partido Socialista!"
In the late afternoon, the new provisional government, operating under the name 'the Provisional Council for the Administration, Governance and Transition of Colombia', would release a short public statement, addressed primarily to the international community to prevent fallout in diplomatic relations, though also aimed as a calming word for any Colombians worried about what the epilogue to the fall of Bogotá may bring.
"The provisional government of the United States of Colombia would like to make it crystal clear, there is no intent by any leading or otherwise members of the government, economy or armed forces, to prolong the transitional government longer than it needs to be, nor to assert an anti-democratic political system in the United States. The events that have unfolded over the past 24 hours come solely as a result of fifty years of intimidation and repression at the hands of an aggressively corrupt government under the leadership of Francisco and Hernan Marquéz, who curtailed the freedoms and liberties of the people of Colombia for the sake of enriching themselves, their family, friends and business interests. The Provisional Council has already confirmed at its first regular session, shortly after the Chairman's address in the afternoon, that within six months a full round of free and fair general elections will be held. Until then the Council will work to perform all required functions to keep the lives of the people of Colombia on track, and to continue all international and foreign affairs obligations of the United States, and will apply its best efforts to stabilizing the nation in the wake of a sudden change of power."
Signed,
Temporary Chairman of the Provisional Council for the Administration, Governance and Transition of Colombia,
Col. Aureliano Gabriel Buendía