Thread by @CoyoteCeniza

The last three generations of Colombians have grown amid political violence. Ours is a people much abused by those in power; the champions and candidates who could make a difference have been assassinated and then held up as martyrs by their own killers. #SOSColombia

Hunger, poverty, and exclusion have always been presented as a knell that will befall us if we do not agree or comply with the wishes of the powerful and the rich.
#Colombia is a feudal country currently in the hands of a sociopathic and charismatic landlord. #SOSColombia

Our country's unrequited love for neoliberalism has led its rulers to make all sorts of idiotic economic decisions. Our tradition of grim poverty, even among the transiently rich, is the fuel that feeds what is probably the most corrupt democracy in the world. #SOSColombia

We are heralded as the "happiest country in the planet with very beautiful women". But this happiness springs from ignorance out of a retrograde and dumbed-down education system, and our women are systemic victims of all types of violence. #SOSColombia

Whenever we protest, we are crushed into bloody pulps. Our worker unions are treated as communist hotbeds, our universities as socialist indoctrination centers, and only obedience and religious observance of poverty are hailed as legitimate citizenship. #SOSColombia

We are an ethnic curiosity for the academia and a boogeyman for budding republics. We are the cuationary tale of narcoparamilitarins raised to the highest ranks, and we are all judged by the mentality of druglords turned entertainment tropes. #SOSColombia

We are hardly a country, we're an experiment. But as lab rats we are exhausted. We don't want to be pushed around any more just to see how much ignorant folk can take before they have to be mowed down. Our youth, however, as it does everywhere, hold the keys of hope. #SOSColombia

The latest attempt at a murderous tax reform, the crass management of a pandemic that has dunked nearly half the country into extreme poverty, and the absolute disdain of our far-right rulers have beaten the camel's back like no straw ever could. #SOSColombia

This has turned into a civil dictatorship inside a police state run as a cattle ranch by one sociopathic ex-president who thinks very little of people, for whom we are cows that can be milked for taxes and votes.
Let everyone know, tell everyone. #SOSColombia