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🧵- I woke up to missed calls from my step mom. She wanted me to know that the ESMAD (riot squad) had surrounded her complex in response to protests in the park next door. But that she was ok. #ColombiaNeedsHelp #noalaReformaTributaria2021 #NosEstanMatando 
My uncle was a photojournalist during Operación Orion. During the 80’s and early 90’s my father and other members of my family where threatened and even disappeared for days by the militarized police. This is all too familiar for me and many of us who left Colombia.
What’s happening back home isn’t new. Colombia’s history of oppressing the working poor and engaging in civil rights violations against those who speak up is as old as the country itself.
