National suicide seems to be all the rage these days

 Add Colombia to the death-wish list: "Colombia Goes the Way of Venezuela".

On June 19, Colombians elected former Marxist guerrilla Gustavo Petro as their next president. A close ally of Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, Petro has pledged to confiscate and redistribute the country’s wealth.

Democracy is not the same thing as freedom, and is sometimes its enemy. The Colombians are about to find that out the hard way.