Silvana Pesternostro

This time, while reading Silvana Pesternostro, she wasn't that annoying. I was lucky. She began by describing how she was flying back to Colombia, but again went completely off topic and started ranting about her thoughts, casual and acceptable, relatively. But wait! Surprise! Paternostro does it again. She states that Colombia was still recognized as a cocaine nation, instead of a FARC nation. If she only knew that drug lords still exist, and still smuggle cocaine easily into the United States. What a gullible, innocent woman. She's only trying to build up a good story, she just wants the show. Like a reality TV show, but scripted. She wants to make up the script for the nation, condemn it into something more terrible, worsen its image. Again, the attention-seeking and unprofessional journalist proves to the world how talented she's not. She continues ranting on and on about how she recognized the "Gringo" in the airport's gate, while they waited to board the plane. Also, remarking how she sits as far away as possible from the Colombians that return to Bogotá, so she isn't considered "one of them". I could only think of how stupid her comments were, but this is just a mere redundancy. But what really amazed me in this chapter of the book, was how she compares her sense of patriotism, to that of Pablo Escobar's. And once you analyze it, you realize that it's true. Pablo Escobar, the man who killed the innocent, the man who ordered Luís Carlos Galán's murder, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla's murder, Guillermo Cano's murder, Avianca's flight "accident", and well, the list could practically go on forever. But back to my point, the fact that THAT man, that caused so much damage to our nation, the man who caused Silvana Paternostro's impression of Colombia, is more of a patriot, than what she is. "Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo, whose novels and essays capture the Escobar-induced culture of killing in his native Medellín, has said that Colombia is, and has always been, a country of killers and that it should change its name to Violencia. But don't tell that to Colombians. They are furious at Vallejo's proposition." I'm just glad she's starting to realize how things work in the real world. But what I find most amusing, is how she's writing a quote that she shouldn't tell to Colombians, but she is Colombian. So then, she wouldn't be able to tell that to herself? Or maybe, she's admitting how she's not quite Colombian, and the only thing she carries with, is a brown passport. She finishes up by describing how excited she is at looking at AK-47's, or cocaine. I'm sorry to destroy your dreams, Silvana, but I've lived in Colombia for seventeen years and eleven months, and I have never seen an AK-47, or cocaine. In terms of tone, she's surprisingly neutral, but sometimes positive. She fluctuates between the two. When the story is talking about something horrid, she seems to be almost even satirical, exaggerated, and positive. When it's boring, she's neutral.