[Music]
thank you very much for allowing me to be here
today in my alma mater and tell you a little
who I am but above all
what happens with lime and in terms of peace in
matter of reconciliation I imagine
that many of you if not the majority
we are caleños
and sometimes we are not very aware of
what’s happening outside in the streets
what happens in the aguablanca district
for example what happens on the hillside us
happened the story has come to us
passing the story and not necessarily
we have realized the advances that
we have given
let’s look at what’s behind me
everything happens and has happened in cali
we were the parent company of one of
the biggest drug posters in
the world that leaves a mark and that generates
effects and that hurts and that the wax and the
wax culture and the societies and the
dynamic wax
we are the only city in the country
that has had three massive kidnappings in
the framework of the conflict came from
cinematic way to the heart of
administrative center of our city
and they took the corporation
departmentally in full 11 deputies but
that was one of the many kidnappings
that image that you see there that
pump if you watch carefully
the building that is behind is the field
It is the municipal administrative center
at this moment maybe we already forgot
that will be the reality that we lived
you are images of these guys
every day we keep them having
we have any number of communes and
neighborhoods good not any amount no
less about 11 communes in condition of
extreme vulnerability
within each commune there are between 20
and there may be 30 or more neighborhoods full
of invisible borders full of children
and armed youth seven years I
I imagine that many of you will have
seen ‘city of god’ and they will have said in
some time my god that how can
pass then pass and pass in a city
like ours but on top of that
In addition to drug trafficking armed conflict
and its effects violence and dynamics of
violence that surrounds us the conflict that
he was describing us now Juliana and
it said 52 years many of our
compatriots from one side and another
killing herself permanently left in
victims the same number of inhabitants
that has a country like Israel 8 million
8 million are many people
they are a country and here we have them
but in victims
in people affected in men and
women who lost all dignity
the freedom the life his own body his
land everything they worked for
that the war has left us is painful
it’s very painful and sometimes when we’re
here in a university comfortably
sitting in our houses because we are not
necessarily aware of everything
what happens outside and the whole amount of
human beings and compatriots who
our around us need
opportunities but we also end
becoming
in whom we are living the day one day
at the same time and we forget history and
we forget our memory and we forget
we are better today than yesterday these
images that you are seeing by
example to me really shocked me a lot
see the image of the bomb next to the
municipal administrative center because
inside that building every day of
my life and went into that building all the
days of my life because in the year 2016
a person made the decision to give
Cali an impulse from another level in matter
of peace and reconciliation that word
that the word is so politicized that
It would seem that if it is from saints that if
it’s not saints that if he wants to uribe
that if he does not want it, then he will not
we want etc etc.
a right that we all
Colombians in this case and we have it
by constitution and is nothing other than
the possibility of living and living in
harmony without killing us is nothing other than
the possibility of relating to each other
to others respecting the difference and
when I tell them that it impresses me to see
the image of the bomb I saw her because
I work in the field because
it turns out that I do not understand very well how and
I tell you honestly
I became secretary peace
the first secretary of peace of this
municipality
that for me at this time in addition to
being an honor is a responsibility
immense because I am in my city and I
they just gave when I say they finish me
I’m talking in relative time the
responsibility to leave my city
an alternative of transformation that
be sustainable and durable over time
and that I dedicated the last three
years if you help me
4 years ago long began to sound by
everywhere peace peace peace what good it is
bad that we like that we do not like that
it belongs to this that not what
but it turns out that we forgot
what the term really consists of
concept
we have as a city the rate more
Colombia’s homicide discharge that’s
an alarming figure is a figure that is
unacceptable that does not have any logic and
we have the highest homicide rate
in Colombia because we are a city with
very particular characteristics
here in cali alone in cali there are more than 200
thousand 205 thousand victims of the conflict
armed have arrived and all the
days we have been a transit city
of ex-combatants of armed groups to
margin of law for 16 years
cali receives demobilized if you
have gone I imagine that all have gone
once to success they have suddenly
found with a demobilized from
soon a demobilized has billed them
the account in the box a person who
he was part of the farc
and when we see it in the box, it does not
we happen to think that it is a monster
and when I approach that reality
over ten years long eleven years
long life gave me the possibility of
start working on peace issues
disarmament reintegration demobilization
I begin to find that beings
humans who carry weapons in my country
many began to bring the being
children many others
there they have a condition of revenge very
marked many others were
simply dying of hunger and
they were between two fires that is to say
who have made part of the logics
of the conflict in Colombia are
Colombians in most cases
very poor in a very high percentage more
65 percent of minors
and that does not just happen and happened in the
armed conflict but what happens and is
happening in the urban conflict
we came to the neighborhoods and we
we found children and young people who did not
understand that life can be more
beyond defending an imaginary line of
micro-trafficking that is what provides them
them and their resource families
economic and that’s when then
we started to believe
what do you have to
be creative is worth the redundancy and
think about how to generate
transformation
or ensuring that they meet all
the conditions that the state mandates
needs and requires and there we give ourselves
account of two things the first the
resocialization of a human being of a
individual goes through an opportunity and the
second not necessarily our
social dynamics of conflict are going to
change to jail tip
because because jail is not
resocializadora and I’m not saying
I say literature in the world
unless we have prisons of the
style of the Nordic countries
definitely that a young man or a boy
of our from our city enter
a context this prison case does not
guarantees that that young man that child is going to
go out to be a better citizen at
opposite the risk factor that that
boy and that young man come out to follow
breaking and committing more is
very high is more than 80 percent
and it turns out that we started to discover how
shake hands with a
permanent accompaniment do not ask
one day ask him permanently
and systematic how are you that you need
take him by the hand and take him and tell him
see if you learn to read and write
open these possibilities
hold him by the hand and tell him look this
is the city this scale because many
of our young people who are
committing crimes have never left their
neighborhoods and their invisible borders of
there also an exercise of
fuertísimo territorializing the
they protect as if they were their own
houses
that
alternative to generate a second
opportunity became for us today
a flag and it’s the program and it’s the
proposal and is the way to accompany
demobilized victims and former youth
gang members who went from a logic of
the total dependence in the case of
many of them state or total
link to illegality to a logic
start making citizens and that happened to
from the moment in which this city
start having
a specifically established body
to work for peace and culture
citizen the task is immense
every day we have situations that
They show us that Caleños do not like
we understand that the city is ours and
so if we do not take care of it, we can not
pretend that the state does everything
but I also want to tell you today
cali has 510 human beings
who are becoming who
they transfer messages education and
pedagogy around the peace of the
coexistence and citizen culture
we have decreased by 53 percent the
homicide between gangs we are
working in an integrated manner with others
agencies and with many organizations
with more than 15,500 young ex-gang members
and still a gang member resocialize a
person is not something that is made of a
day for another is a thing that takes
time is one thing that requires a
integral process of accompaniment which
is that process there are the psychologists
which are fundamental in this case
we work with the
art so that it effectively becomes
in a therapeutic mechanism of
transformation and we work in a way
very important with a concept and it’s the
concept that also worked a lot in
this university of justice
restorative because because then in
place of me going to jail to pay
in a way that is not necessarily clear
one for an injury that I committed
I am giving back with actions
concrete to my city for the damages that
I have committed and where they are found
surely some of you have
seen in the most critical points of this
city in the station universities of the
my always will see them have
blue shirt vest coffee hat
says g of manager are former victims
fighters and former gang members and today
they are every day in this city in
our city in your city telling you to
the people in my lady if we do
the row
it probably gives us more income
they are at the road intersection points
where there is a higher accident rate
teaching people the importance of
educate the pedestrian
94% of users who have a relationship
with these people they manifest feeling
satisfied because it turns out that no
we had realized that for example
in the mass transport system there
there are those who accompany the people who
have a disability condition
they spontaneously started
do it and they ended up becoming almost
that your presence is not a necessity
to be able to mobilize and accompany the
people with disabilities
We have more than thousand 333 days of
retribution but beyond the figures
that is not the important thing that I know
I show you because many of you sure
they had no idea what cali has a
Secretary of Peace and Citizen Culture and
that has a team and that has 1000 that
has 500 peace managers trying to
restore the and the civism that we
characterized as a city I tell you
because basically when to me
They invite me to be here and they talk to me about
living interactions
I tell them that the message that I
I want to transmit is the message of what
which implies a second chance
our country is a country that requires
opportunities requires second
opportunities
we can not continue to kill each other
us and we can not continue
unaware that we have a
social problem immense product of
all that history of pain of violence
and conflict
young people who move into the territory
they are young directly consequence of what
what it was and what history has been
of drug trafficking in our city but
we have to get them out of there and get them out
there implies an exercise and a task
of all
this sentence that I am going to read to you
Then he said it verbally and
fortunately we registered it
peace manager during his graduation
because the program time for them
has a finite is has a beginning and
has an end it is about not generating
assistential logics and his phrase was
the hands that used to hurt now
are to study to progress
I thank for the teachings and the team
of artistic and social accompaniment by
the opportunity will no longer have the uniform
but I am a peace and culture manager
citizen in my heart
these are caleños coexist with us
the message or the closure simply that
I want to give them and this is a phrase that
belongs to a public entity of the
national government but that comes as
ring to the finger is that really in
colombia and in cali an opportunity what
change everything, hopefully we think about it when
let’s be on the street and hopefully we’ll give
mind that it is also in our
hands thank you very much
thank you very much for allowing me to be here
today in my alma mater and tell you a little
who I am but above all
what happens with lime and in terms of peace in
matter of reconciliation I imagine
that many of you if not the majority
we are caleños
and sometimes we are not very aware of
what’s happening outside in the streets
what happens in the aguablanca district
for example what happens on the hillside us
happened the story has come to us
passing the story and not necessarily
we have realized the advances that
we have given
let’s look at what’s behind me
everything happens and has happened in cali
we were the parent company of one of
the biggest drug posters in
the world that leaves a mark and that generates
effects and that hurts and that the wax and the
wax culture and the societies and the
dynamic wax
we are the only city in the country
that has had three massive kidnappings in
the framework of the conflict came from
cinematic way to the heart of
administrative center of our city
and they took the corporation
departmentally in full 11 deputies but
that was one of the many kidnappings
that image that you see there that
pump if you watch carefully
the building that is behind is the field
It is the municipal administrative center
at this moment maybe we already forgot
that will be the reality that we lived
you are images of these guys
every day we keep them having
we have any number of communes and
neighborhoods good not any amount no
less about 11 communes in condition of
extreme vulnerability
within each commune there are between 20
and there may be 30 or more neighborhoods full
of invisible borders full of children
and armed youth seven years I
I imagine that many of you will have
seen ‘city of god’ and they will have said in
some time my god that how can
pass then pass and pass in a city
like ours but on top of that
In addition to drug trafficking armed conflict
and its effects violence and dynamics of
violence that surrounds us the conflict that
he was describing us now Juliana and
it said 52 years many of our
compatriots from one side and another
killing herself permanently left in
victims the same number of inhabitants
that has a country like Israel 8 million
8 million are many people
they are a country and here we have them
but in victims
in people affected in men and
women who lost all dignity
the freedom the life his own body his
land everything they worked for
that the war has left us is painful
it’s very painful and sometimes when we’re
here in a university comfortably
sitting in our houses because we are not
necessarily aware of everything
what happens outside and the whole amount of
human beings and compatriots who
our around us need
opportunities but we also end
becoming
in whom we are living the day one day
at the same time and we forget history and
we forget our memory and we forget
we are better today than yesterday these
images that you are seeing by
example to me really shocked me a lot
see the image of the bomb next to the
municipal administrative center because
inside that building every day of
my life and went into that building all the
days of my life because in the year 2016
a person made the decision to give
Cali an impulse from another level in matter
of peace and reconciliation that word
that the word is so politicized that
It would seem that if it is from saints that if
it’s not saints that if he wants to uribe
that if he does not want it, then he will not
we want etc etc.
a right that we all
Colombians in this case and we have it
by constitution and is nothing other than
the possibility of living and living in
harmony without killing us is nothing other than
the possibility of relating to each other
to others respecting the difference and
when I tell them that it impresses me to see
the image of the bomb I saw her because
I work in the field because
it turns out that I do not understand very well how and
I tell you honestly
I became secretary peace
the first secretary of peace of this
municipality
that for me at this time in addition to
being an honor is a responsibility
immense because I am in my city and I
they just gave when I say they finish me
I’m talking in relative time the
responsibility to leave my city
an alternative of transformation that
be sustainable and durable over time
and that I dedicated the last three
years if you help me
4 years ago long began to sound by
everywhere peace peace peace what good it is
bad that we like that we do not like that
it belongs to this that not what
but it turns out that we forgot
what the term really consists of
concept
we have as a city the rate more
Colombia’s homicide discharge that’s
an alarming figure is a figure that is
unacceptable that does not have any logic and
we have the highest homicide rate
in Colombia because we are a city with
very particular characteristics
here in cali alone in cali there are more than 200
thousand 205 thousand victims of the conflict
armed have arrived and all the
days we have been a transit city
of ex-combatants of armed groups to
margin of law for 16 years
cali receives demobilized if you
have gone I imagine that all have gone
once to success they have suddenly
found with a demobilized from
soon a demobilized has billed them
the account in the box a person who
he was part of the farc
and when we see it in the box, it does not
we happen to think that it is a monster
and when I approach that reality
over ten years long eleven years
long life gave me the possibility of
start working on peace issues
disarmament reintegration demobilization
I begin to find that beings
humans who carry weapons in my country
many began to bring the being
children many others
there they have a condition of revenge very
marked many others were
simply dying of hunger and
they were between two fires that is to say
who have made part of the logics
of the conflict in Colombia are
Colombians in most cases
very poor in a very high percentage more
65 percent of minors
and that does not just happen and happened in the
armed conflict but what happens and is
happening in the urban conflict
we came to the neighborhoods and we
we found children and young people who did not
understand that life can be more
beyond defending an imaginary line of
micro-trafficking that is what provides them
them and their resource families
economic and that’s when then
we started to believe
what do you have to
be creative is worth the redundancy and
think about how to generate
transformation
or ensuring that they meet all
the conditions that the state mandates
needs and requires and there we give ourselves
account of two things the first the
resocialization of a human being of a
individual goes through an opportunity and the
second not necessarily our
social dynamics of conflict are going to
change to jail tip
because because jail is not
resocializadora and I’m not saying
I say literature in the world
unless we have prisons of the
style of the Nordic countries
definitely that a young man or a boy
of our from our city enter
a context this prison case does not
guarantees that that young man that child is going to
go out to be a better citizen at
opposite the risk factor that that
boy and that young man come out to follow
breaking and committing more is
very high is more than 80 percent
and it turns out that we started to discover how
shake hands with a
permanent accompaniment do not ask
one day ask him permanently
and systematic how are you that you need
take him by the hand and take him and tell him
see if you learn to read and write
open these possibilities
hold him by the hand and tell him look this
is the city this scale because many
of our young people who are
committing crimes have never left their
neighborhoods and their invisible borders of
there also an exercise of
fuertísimo territorializing the
they protect as if they were their own
houses
that
alternative to generate a second
opportunity became for us today
a flag and it’s the program and it’s the
proposal and is the way to accompany
demobilized victims and former youth
gang members who went from a logic of
the total dependence in the case of
many of them state or total
link to illegality to a logic
start making citizens and that happened to
from the moment in which this city
start having
a specifically established body
to work for peace and culture
citizen the task is immense
every day we have situations that
They show us that Caleños do not like
we understand that the city is ours and
so if we do not take care of it, we can not
pretend that the state does everything
but I also want to tell you today
cali has 510 human beings
who are becoming who
they transfer messages education and
pedagogy around the peace of the
coexistence and citizen culture
we have decreased by 53 percent the
homicide between gangs we are
working in an integrated manner with others
agencies and with many organizations
with more than 15,500 young ex-gang members
and still a gang member resocialize a
person is not something that is made of a
day for another is a thing that takes
time is one thing that requires a
integral process of accompaniment which
is that process there are the psychologists
which are fundamental in this case
we work with the
art so that it effectively becomes
in a therapeutic mechanism of
transformation and we work in a way
very important with a concept and it’s the
concept that also worked a lot in
this university of justice
restorative because because then in
place of me going to jail to pay
in a way that is not necessarily clear
one for an injury that I committed
I am giving back with actions
concrete to my city for the damages that
I have committed and where they are found
surely some of you have
seen in the most critical points of this
city in the station universities of the
my always will see them have
blue shirt vest coffee hat
says g of manager are former victims
fighters and former gang members and today
they are every day in this city in
our city in your city telling you to
the people in my lady if we do
the row
it probably gives us more income
they are at the road intersection points
where there is a higher accident rate
teaching people the importance of
educate the pedestrian
94% of users who have a relationship
with these people they manifest feeling
satisfied because it turns out that no
we had realized that for example
in the mass transport system there
there are those who accompany the people who
have a disability condition
they spontaneously started
do it and they ended up becoming almost
that your presence is not a necessity
to be able to mobilize and accompany the
people with disabilities
We have more than thousand 333 days of
retribution but beyond the figures
that is not the important thing that I know
I show you because many of you sure
they had no idea what cali has a
Secretary of Peace and Citizen Culture and
that has a team and that has 1000 that
has 500 peace managers trying to
restore the and the civism that we
characterized as a city I tell you
because basically when to me
They invite me to be here and they talk to me about
living interactions
I tell them that the message that I
I want to transmit is the message of what
which implies a second chance
our country is a country that requires
opportunities requires second
opportunities
we can not continue to kill each other
us and we can not continue
unaware that we have a
social problem immense product of
all that history of pain of violence
and conflict
young people who move into the territory
they are young directly consequence of what
what it was and what history has been
of drug trafficking in our city but
we have to get them out of there and get them out
there implies an exercise and a task
of all
this sentence that I am going to read to you
Then he said it verbally and
fortunately we registered it
peace manager during his graduation
because the program time for them
has a finite is has a beginning and
has an end it is about not generating
assistential logics and his phrase was
the hands that used to hurt now
are to study to progress
I thank for the teachings and the team
of artistic and social accompaniment by
the opportunity will no longer have the uniform
but I am a peace and culture manager
citizen in my heart
these are caleños coexist with us
the message or the closure simply that
I want to give them and this is a phrase that
belongs to a public entity of the
national government but that comes as
ring to the finger is that really in
colombia and in cali an opportunity what
change everything, hopefully we think about it when
let’s be on the street and hopefully we’ll give
mind that it is also in our
hands thank you very much
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