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Re:The Nobel Peace Prize 2016: Juan Manuel Santos by forinti on Friday October 07, 2016 @12:14PM (#12661797)
I was in Colombia in 2010 (what a beatiful country and people - I loved it). There were elections and I saw "De la U" posters all over. So I asked a few people what the U stood for. Nobody seemed to know. This is the party that won the presidency.

Did I just happen to ask the wrong people or is political awareness that low in Colombia?

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Re:The Nobel Peace Prize 2016: Juan Manuel Santos by javpaw on Friday October 07, 2016 @12:30PM (#12661926)
This was one of the parties that supported former president Uribe back then, so many people think that the "U" is for him. But in fact "De la U" is for "De la Unidad Nacional" (National Unity).

And yes, political awareness in Colombia is low. The abstention for this plebiscite was greater than 60%.

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Re:The Nobel Peace Prize 2016: Juan Manuel Santos by forinti on Friday October 07, 2016 @12:35PM (#12661958)
> The abstention for this plebiscite was greater than 60%.

That surprises me as people weren't at all shy about how much they disliked the FARC.

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Re:The Nobel Peace Prize 2016: Juan Manuel Santos by Shorel on Friday October 07, 2016 @03:16PM (#12663233)
It is word play. They started as a party supporting Uribe (that's where the U comes from), then became oppositors of him, so the meaning had to be retconned.

And yes, political awareness in Colombia is a bit like an Internet forum: where memes are more prevalent than intelligent discourse.

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