A little piece of Colombia

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by Alejandra Rodriguez0 views·Updated May 15, 2021
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  1. Okay, thank you for coming to the second part.
  2. Um this is the last part and of course it's
  3. going to be shorter.
  4. I'm going to show you the pictures that I took
  5. from internet but it may be I'm going to move
  6. to myself to talk more freely about the topic.
  7. It's going to be sure.
  8. But anyway.
  9. Yeah, yeah.
  10. Our journey leads to us Colombia today and maybe one
  11. of the saddest and most important um crisis that we
  12. have in this moment in latin America.
  13. We see some of the pictures.
  14. I think the first one is really, really significant.
  15. Tive and well, we see resistance here, we see repression
  16. and we see people in streets against this reform at
  17. remote area.
  18. But I think the topic is more than that and
  19. here's what I talk about this.
  20. I have friends from Columbia.
  21. So I've been in contact with them during this time
  22. trying to understand what is going on with the situation.
  23. The situation in Colombia Colombia has been, has never been
  24. a super rich country or a super developed country as
  25. all the dinner as most of latin America.
  26. He has a lot of stuff um and justice and
  27. of course we know and we have maybe a little
  28. um wrong idea about that.
  29. They are only uh drug dealers or prostitutes and even
  30. they carry with that stereotype with that stigma and maybe
  31. they have a lot of of that.
  32. But the thing is the social injustice is even worse
  33. than than we have in chile.
  34. The reformatory will tell you now, it's not, it's not
  35. that that creates the social crisis in general.
  36. The reformatory will tell you is Is a thing that
  37. it's dealing with the decreasing of the economy during the
  38. last years in Colombia, the economy in Colombia has decreased
  39. more than 77 like in super short time.
  40. So for them and the country's going poor and more
  41. poor. But the thing is the reformatory what area as
  42. far as I understood force people to make deals make
  43. different deals with the with the money they earn, they
  44. have to pay more for services and they are like
  45. cutting to people some of the few social helps that
  46. they received from the government.
  47. So that is what creates like the bones but it's
  48. like like like the last piece that ends with christ
  49. we just exploded everything that were they were dealing with
  50. all these years.
  51. We have to consider also that there are more mm
  52. weapon traffic traffic of weapons of in in Colombia and
  53. there are a lot of like paramilitary groups that create
  54. terror between between people and also that effect.
  55. It's true that there are a lot of parts and
  56. elements that are controlled by Narcotrafico and that it's really,
  57. really, really hard to their way but the people now
  58. it's complaining because the government is using the force against
  59. the people that is protesting in the pacific way.
  60. They are not using the police or the military to
  61. confront the people that is really hurt in the country.
  62. They are using the to to report to from to
  63. repress people that is using a democratic and legal instrument.
  64. That is the protest demonstrations are legal.
  65. Just until just like us, We saw in 2019 how
  66. our own social crisis were carried and how many people
  67. suffer and lose their eyes because of the injustice under
  68. repression. No, we have we are seeing the even worse
  69. in Colombia because they are publicly shooting people with real
  70. bullets in the streets and not only that, but they
  71. are also controlling the social media because some of these
  72. friends that I have try to upload videos and photos
  73. to instagram or some platforms to share with the world
  74. what is going on, what is happening in the country?
  75. And they cannot, they cannot.
  76. They say that there is some kind of problem that
  77. the videos or the content cannot be shared and it's
  78. because they are creating.
  79. Uh they're trying to shut them.
  80. Oh, and that is not acceptable.
  81. I suppose we are in a free world, suppose we
  82. are in a democratic system, I suppose.
  83. So. Now we should be worried about them.
  84. I think we're worried about us in the moment.
  85. That's why I wanted to share this piece of information
  86. and this piece of self reflection about this with my
  87. face with my words.
  88. Because uh, what they are suffering now is not the
  89. first social crisis that they have, but the government is
  90. much worse than the one we have in terms of
  91. repression in terms of dealing with people.
  92. But also, Colombians are more organized, have uh more uh
  93. institutions that represents people.
  94. So maybe they can deal better with the crisis than
  95. we did.
  96. Because to be honest, we save our crisis because of
  97. the covid our crisis never ends.
  98. It just we couldn't go out again.
  99. But in the case of the Colombians, they are fighting
  100. for the rights now.
  101. And I think we should support him.
  102. Which should help at least sharing the information we know,
  103. sharing the truth that we know and try to not
  104. believe because they are being shutting down.
  105. Well, that was my reflection.
  106. That was my presentation.
  107. The teacher, thank you so much for receiving my video.
  108. I know that it's going to be really late when
  109. you receive it because the processing these videos are is
  110. just eternal.
  111. But I hope you enjoy the presentation, uh, and see
  112. you. I hope see you soon and stay healthy.
  113. Thank you for your attention.
  114. Bye bye.