Specifically, people should understand that there's a long history of assassinations that

continues to this day.

You were talking about the assassination of the very important leftist leader, Jorge Alieira

Sergaiton, who was supposed to be president and was assassinated.

And that was decades ago, but still today, every single year in Colombia, hundreds of activists

are killed.

And in fact, according to civil society organizations that monitor this, in 2021, there were 96 massacres.

This last year alone, before that, there were nearly 100 massacres.

This year, there have already been dozens of massacres.

And these are massacres of land defenders, Afro-Columbians, indigenous nations, and labor organizers.

If you have a progressive bone in your body, and especially if you live in a rural area,

it's very dangerous.

And that's because, as you acknowledge Brianna, such an important factor of this is the

concentration of land in the hands of a few capitalists.

These big multinational corporations are trying to exploit land.

I should say that Coca-Cola has been implicated in this and using death squads to kill labor

organizers.

So this is not even just the Colombian oligarchy, which is very bloody and notorious, but

also foreign corporations that are trying to exploit Colombia's very plentiful resources.

And both Pedro and Marquez, we should stress that Francia Marquez is from a rural area.

He represents the Afro-Columbian community. They have talked about the importance of

land reform, because the country has been so devastated by violence.

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