Anxiety, stress, lonelyness, hurt... common feelings that Colombian citizens feel by these days. People are tired of using social networks because you will know what you are going to find: fights, injustice, hurt citizens, deceased; it makes you feel so disappointed about how your life made a 180· change last year and 2021 is still worst if you live in Colombia or you are colombian citizens, by this point just on point of time is let to ask. How this was caused? everything happened because of the "Tax reform".
The Tax reform "was an alternative to tax collection and prevent the Colombian debt from causing the loss of more points in international risk ratings, institutionalize basic income and create a fund for environmental conversation" (BBC, 2021).
Considering the previous explanation we can start with the belief that the main idea of this writing is try not to choose parties, it is important to respect sides and beliefs, but it is very crucial to not to keep quiet. When I refer to "not keep quite" is for real! please do not do it, people like you or even like me, have to process what has going in our homeland. Based on "Pictoline" in Instagram with the post called #SOSColombia it mentions that since the explosion of the 28A have happened: 10 victims of sexual violence, more than 1.700 cases of police violence, at least 34 people killed, 831 arbitrary arrests, 89 people missing.
The last days have being complicated for all the population and has being pretty exhausting for our mental health because of the uncertainty, protests are at top everywhere from streets to social media for our hurt country and in order to defend our rights; is a constant fighting against indifference for low classes and corruption. It seems that the best solution is shut down for a while our social networks to have stability. Currently, it is possible to say that the population wants to make a "Paro" that means that all the commerce will stop in form of protest, since then, public universities have entered in this period of none activities and private universities are following them in different cities of Colombia. Streets are collapsed with protests and food is not arriving to the cities and prices in the supermarkets are rising, in other words lots sociopolitical issues are mixed.
Companies and institutions have taken decisions in order to maintain the mental health of their employees and colleagues because are hard times for all, basically people are mourning and the most complicated issue is to respect people that want to continue their lives as usual, like the right of education and the other half want to used their right to protest. The citizens were heard and the "tax reform" was "cancelled" but actually the government is focus in just making a few changes, and is frustrating because people disagree with other reforms like the Health reform (La reforma de la salud - Proyecto de Ley 010 de 2020) that was propose to make sustantive changes in different instances and functions in the health sector to make it more equity and accomplish the necessities of health of the population.
The main criticism that the project has is that it does not fulfill its main goal or purpose, after all, it would promote the non practice of the fundamental right of health in favor of the financial profitability of insurers and health providers. In Colombia people are tired of the corruption and how the rich people become richer via making the poor poorer or taking advantage of the middle class or the working class.
To sum up, the best alternative nowadays is to keep yourself informed about the decisions taken so your rights would not be violated and not keep the people in power that everyday maintains the immunity that they achieved by the stolen money. Also as a personal point of view, I suggest that we should try to keep emotional intelligence at top and use our right of protest in peace because fight with violence creates more violence and hate, always will be other way to make things better. It is important to remember that all of us are humans and we have limits and your peace always will be a priority, you can always look for help because the current situation is overwhelming for everybody, so remember that you are not alone in this, it is a whole people together marching against the same goal, that is stop fueling corruption.
BBC. (n.d.). Reforma tributaria en Colombia: Iván Duque pide al Congreso retirar el polémico proyecto que desató fuertes protestas. BBC News Mundo. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-56966451.
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