They want to work and to have their rights protected. But many have to fight every day for bread for their families, leaving them little energy to fight for political space. Finally they took over some land just outside the city to install their houses of cardboard and plastic. Such new forms of accompaniment are dangerous in Colombia. But when you begin talking about the human rights of the displaced, you're seen as subversive.
Social protest is criminalized in Colombia.
One who commits to justice here automatically converts into an enemy of those in power. Used by Permission.