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1337: Colombia rises up / Alejandra Marín Buitrago

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Urban planning scholar Alejandra Marín Buitrago on her article "Colombia on the Brink" for Counterpunch. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/07/colombia-on-the-brink/

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There is a lie and a call in the world.

0:05.0

There is no other way to do we.

0:10.0

But the one is a lie. You're welcome to be?

0:13.0

You're welcome.

0:15.0

You're welcome.

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You're welcome to be able to get here.

0:20.0

You're welcome, Neil. This is hell.

0:37.0

is hell.

0:40.0

manufacturing descent since 1996.

0:46.0

This is hell.

0:49.0

And we've had a lot of guests on the show of late who have been talking about violence conducted by police, cruel brutal violence that is often racialized targeting people of color.

0:59.0

We talked about police crackdowns against political dissent in Turkey, Greece, France, the UK, the US.

1:06.6

It's seemingly happening everywhere and if there is a global uprising, as if there's a global

1:12.0

uprising against police violence everywhere.

1:15.0

So we thought we'd take a break from what appears to be a worldwide revolution against the violence committed by cops to discuss an uprising of another kind.

1:25.2

Columbia has seen weeks of civil unrest as citizens rose up against a new plan

1:30.4

by the government to address an economy collapsing due to the pandemic.

1:34.7

The problem is the new plan is like all of the old plans for Columbia, which repeatedly

1:39.7

makes things more and more unequal as the fabulously wealthy get even more rich and the cost of

1:45.8

everything falls on the backs of the poor. After dozens were killed the government

1:50.8

decided their tax proposal which would have put an unfair burden on

1:54.4

the poor was probably not the best idea and decided not to implement it after all.

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