Colombia’s new president, Juan Manuel Santos, showed genuine courage in cutting short a march to war with Venezuela and calming down the entire Bolivarian axis (Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia) by reviving the region’s diplomatic channels. His was a truly revolutionary shift from the politics of saber-rattling to the hard work of establishing regional peace.
然而，我们不能因此转而相信宿命论。哥伦比亚的新总统胡安·曼努埃尔·桑托斯停止了与委内瑞拉的战争势头，通过恢复地区外交渠道安抚了整个“玻利瓦尔轴心”（委内瑞拉、厄瓜多尔以及玻利维亚），以此表现出了真正的气概。他是真正革命性转折人物，把充斥着战争叫嚣的政治转化为实现地区和平的努力奋斗。