I’m very honored to be here and I’m going to
change what was originally
I thought to tell you because I was
listening very carefully to what
my colleagues have said
tonight and I’m going to tell you a little
something that he does not know because I am
I have been privileged here
I was born in a family with all the
opportunities in my hand
had the doors open to choose
my way and that was a great privilege
I chose to be a very early
mathematician be a scientist be a
teacher but also from very
early I started to realize something
and is that depending on the social origin or
do not have the opportunities in this
our society and from very early on I
It seemed unfair because all of us
as we have seen we have talent all
we have our history all
we have capabilities and from
tiny
I felt there was an injustice that
for the reasonable to be born in one place
particular they had the opportunities and
other people did not have it
that always revolved in my mind
from very early
I had the opportunity to choose the place
where to go to study my family had
all resources
then I went to do a PhD in
mathematics reach the place that had
dreamed but that mind that had that
idea from so early of injustice
I felt why so many people with
so much ability and I could choose my
way and how many can not choose a
way in colombia made me go back to
colombia and I am going to work so that
this has been a privilege for me
be a right for all people
that’s the reason why I’m
here today in the guajira
for that reason I am here today
moment
and notice that after
start in this world I am a teacher
I feel proud to be a teacher
what distinguishes his people that I
I chose that was what I dreamed
old at 43 I discovered something very
important that phrase that you can
read and politics is the key
the word all it means today is
a negative connotation but for me
and with this story I’m going to tell you
we discovered that politics is the key
because I was part of society
as a teacher and now professor
university the andes in bogota the
national university in
math departments had
established 43 years as I tell you but
with a group of people in my city of
medellin
we sit down we communicate and
we discovered something first we were
outraged with what happens to our
around
we were not satisfied with the
society that we lived we did not like the
policy that we saw and the
same time we wanted to contribute and when
We wanted to contribute many
things from different sectors we came
we and recurrently we are
saying you have to do this you have to
do this you have to do this and then
of so much time being saying to
what do we think about and we did it
when we say we must do
this to who we are saying that what
make the politicians who are the
people who make the most decisions
important of our society
and we did not like that
politics and we are faced in that
moment to a decision and it is us
we remain the rest of our life saying
you have to do this or here I am for
today or we said then let’s participate
we in politics we going to get
to politics
let’s set the priorities
let’s get to power and in power
we are going to transform this society and
we dream
as Don Luis says and we dared to
participate in politics and we set out
change the world
starting from Medellin my city
our city from that group of people
we were there this was 17 years ago
I already today I have sixty heavy of 43 we
We dared to change the world we got
to politics a world where very few
people want to go in and that’s the
path that we have traveled and notice what
what it means to dream feet what
it means to have ideas dreams and so we
we put in we started doing
policy and the tenth policy of a
very simple way we identify some
principles the fundamental concepts
that we all shared in that
group is not going to target for
do what came next
we identify the problems that
We wanted to solve in Medellín that
time social inequalities
profound always brought to mind the
violence that marked the city to measure
for so long the pain the barbarism and
at the same time the culture of
illegality and corruption and we said
these are the three problems that
we are going to solve these are the
principles and we got into politics
to solve them and we have come
working on all this but for
Solve the problems
one has some fundamental concepts
over which life is stopped for
doing things and concepts
fundamentals we have for
start four values dignity
any of us is equally
valuable as a human being
monseigneur that means dignity all
We are exactly the same and none of
we have a price because we are the
maximum expression of the spirit
capabilities
all of us have capabilities of
one way or another we have a set of
capabilities people and
communities we identify with the
respect and recognition of each
person a very important principle and
first and the denial of that principle
the way you act is the end
justifies the means so it acts
many times in our society and that
means that in order to get something from
any way like that but for
get it and we say can not
so be the policy is made of another
way are the means that justify
At last, what we are doing is going
justifying the place where we
we want to arrive
when we arrived at that place already
we build what we are
as opposed to that of any
way any way is worth as such
achieve something and the wealth that is
build when you understand that
way it’s called
trust, trust is a
social construction
the trust is built with a
very simple formula that I put there
which is being coherent and being
coherent means that every step that
let’s give it does not contradict the steps
previous and be consistent that
they mean the principles that we have
from the first day we have respected
every day to all works
we do not change principles
depending on where we are but that
we maintain the same principles
if one is coherent and is conscious
after 17 years
what we have built in the
riches that we have and it’s called
trust and then we start arriving
to power
we decided we started to act
we identify the problems the
principles we know about what oris about
what bases are we standing
how are we going to get there and we come to something
which is very important for the guajira
for Colombia and for us all
days and it’s like you get to power and
how we fight with the disease more
serious problem that our country has
called corruption and that’s very
important to understand it because there is a
formula a formula that does not fail to
fight against corruption the
transparency that everything that we
we make it look I ‘m going to explain a
little bit more and based like us
we believe in the media justify the end
based on the following expression of the
way how you get to power
well governs and is very well how
came to if he is going to govern and I put it
here sorry on a graph I do not know
I will explain all I simply say
that there are two paths
there the path of transparency and
legality where nobody has a price is
the path of corruption and the
darkness where the corrupt ones that
has prices are in the
difference
you have a price you have principles
chose one path or the other is not that
I can do a little here here
here is a decision that one
take with regard to how the
public policy and by a way
that of transparency and legality
everything looks the people are recognized by
its merit and the
opportunities for the other path in
place of the means justify the end is
the end that justifies the means
who has price are found and
for all who pay to get there
be sure that they come to steal
a bought vote is an insured theft and
down that road
on one side a society is built
where independently of the
social status the merits of
people open the door to be
part of one society or the other
where are the percentages the
business and the traps and they are two
societies and those that we have
what to choose to do
transformation
I am going to use a great caribbean now
coastal who I admire and who has
learned a lot that is called adolfo
meisel rock of Cartagena today is
member of the board of directors of
bank of the coastal republic in the
Cartagena club who loves his
land that he has studied and then
he sent me a presentation that he did
and he asked who needs the
Caribbean Coast to win the 21st century
speaking from the guajira I say that the
Caribbean coast should also include
the urabá because you know or if you do not
you know I will not tell
the first extensive coast in extension
about the Caribbean in Colombia in the
guajira and the second is the urabá that
be atheists that to the people but the
small now also coastal
there is also that region that
needs the Caribbean coast to win the
21st century
I’m going to present something maluco and what
coming
this is called the synthetic index of
the quality of education is not
worry if you do not understand but look
the table and look at that table the
classification in colombia and has 31
Vaupés 30 hit 29 in La Guajira 28
Magdalena 27 Bolívar Miranda Sucre
córdoba san andrés be down on
Caribbean with everyone and intelligence that
has this region with all these
capabilities are of last in the
lowest level of the educational system of
Colombia
look for example these tests the
tests know do not worry much about
the details
the language and mathematics fifth of
primary look at the capital city that
is of last
river ax in this intelligence the
yes town and last tests
know pro after education
top back and look where is the
condition that place can not be
masters and doctorates do not
let’s worry but this what my
friend my friend adolfo says is the
education for the Caribbean to win the
21st century
we have to bet in the Caribbean to the
greatest wealth that the Caribbean has
what is talent but talent is
have to develop and only
develop with education if you do not
bet here to education is not going to
spend nothing
thank you very much
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