COLOMBIA REFLECTION: Where things are worth more than people
CPTnet 22 March 2008 by Julian Gutierrez Castaño Translated by Michele Braley "…¿Adónde van los desaparecidos? Busca en el agua y en los matorrales. ¿Y por qué es que se desaparecen? Porque no todos somos iguales. ("Where have the disappeared gone? Look in the water and in the brush. And why do they disappear? Because we are not all equal ...") The sun warmed Washington, D.C. as did the colorful crowd that gathered in Dupont Plaza on 6 March 2008—an unusually balmy day. The Colombians, and the usual crowd of sympathetic "gringo" human rights activists, carried signs depicting the plight of the victims of the armed conflict that has plagued Colombia since the late 1940s. A unionist displaced by the political right that holds power in Colombia gave testimony. So did the daughter of one of the many victims who were not supposed to proclaim that in Colombia inequality is perpetuated by the State, that the people are devoured by alligators (the state security force