SOS for Buenaventura, civic strike continues The community demands the presence of President Santos, events are getting out of control By: Jesús Karabali | May 22, 2017
SOS for Buenaventura, civic strike continues The community demands the presence of President Santos, events are getting out of control By: Jesús Karabali | May 22, 2017 On May 21, 1851, slavery was "abolished" in Colombia, but it continues. When it comes to abolishing something, it is clear that it is a question of eliminating the practice of an activity definitively, but this is not the case with the abolition of slavery in Colombia. Afro-descendant or black communities, as some prefer to call them, still find themselves living in conditions similar to those forced to live in the Spanish colony. In the XXI century we see that places like Buenaventura are subject to a house called the neoliberalism, I use that metaphor to refer to houses that were suitable for dismembering people in this city, a couple of years ago. Neoliberalism is the cutting house that is dismembering much of the planet and Buenaventura is no exception, while it cames to privatize absolutely