Reblogged
Reblogged
this
is Colombia right now
on the morning of September 9 Javier OrdoƱez, a 42-year-old man, was murdered by the police. he had been drinking with his friends and two officers found him drunk and on his way to buy more alcohol, despite the current prohibition.
he told the officers to give him a fine, one of the officers said he didn't do fines. he didn't put any resistance, the police pulled out a taser and started electrocuting him.
'please, stop,' he cried out.
they didn't.
he was taking to a small police station we call CAI, where he was beaten and presumably tortured (russian roulette) for hours.
when he got to the hospital, he died.
his death reminded us of Dilan Cruz, a 17-year-old boy who was shot in the head by a police officer in a protest.
in the last three months, there have been 58 mass murders the government refuses to address, saying they are not mass murders but collective homicides that cannot and will not be stopped.
people has started protesting and the police has started killing us. so far 200 people have been injured in the protests, 10 people have been killed by the police in a matter of two days.
a girl was raped by the police.
people are going missing.
they are torturing the people they're arresting.
in Colombia, we are dying. several international human rights organizations are concerned for the concentration of power in our president.
ivan duque (the president) and his mentor, alvaro uribe, both come from a party responsible for hundreds of deaths and state crimes. the violence they are responsible for goes beyond measure.
this year, a genocide against indigenous communities has started.
an indigenous 12-year-old girl was raped by 8 military man
2 indigenous leaders were killed by the army
the list goes on
the international media (and the national too) have done nothing but downplay or not talk at all about the violations against human rights and the genocide our country is suffering.
we are dying
and no one knows
rebloging this as an aggressive reminder to everyone (specially for people outside of Colombia and even Latin America) engaging in abuela slander that Encanto is coming out in a very delicate political moment for our country
what exactly do you think would've happened if Mirabel had kicked Alma out of the house and the message had been don't ever forgive anyone, fuck collective and intergenerational healing on a movie that's based on a country that's right now trying to go through a peaceful demobilisation process