guzmán
I am 17 years old, 12th year
college jefferson with orientation in
human sciences and today to share them
a little of that questioning that I’ve
had from very small
questioning that has been integral
political or social artistic cultural
economic and spiritual
I think it’s fundamental to mention this
because it is supremely important that
we understand from the beginning that we are
beings that belong to a whole to a
Nation to a continent to the same world
for more than the rows of pp that the
specialization say finance marketing
or that one after school
they prefer to play soccer
others dance others sleep or go out with
friends is fundamental and I want this
have especially for my generation or
for those who from today
they decide to assume the direction of their
own country is that we can not neglect
that integrality that has by essence
of the integral human being that has
lost from the moment you
We decided to classify ourselves within a
political party or from the moment in
that we feel worthy of signal
point to the other as something that does not
we know if it is truly or not
I want to try to interpret what
tell them I do not want them to think that
it is good to have a defined criterion or
that it is not good to know what we want
what is not right is to think that
our affinity with a certain ideology
political taste musical stratum social
religion or place of residence
we can give ourselves to the task of despising
we do not know and the worst
cases let trains go by only
they happen once in life
as I said or the tec I open quotation marks
you may not agree with
no word that comes out your mouth but
I will defend with your life your right to
express it
I close quotes my first invitation
in this day is to not accept and
remain compliant
to put ourselves in the task of transforming
this country being intact
leave aside to look if there is or not
camera at the traffic light and if there’s no
dust and eagerness let’s abandon the
custom of being late for everything to
that arrived at 7 is also all the
world will arrive at 8
let’s eliminate that idea that chan cuckoo does not
it’s bad the bad thing is that you get caught
the problem is that we do not have a
collective consciousness
we think that a better country is
responsibility of the one who works in
the government or that the development of
cement
I want to start by telling you a story
that not only marked my country but
that definitely marked a before and a
later in my life I opened my eyes
on April 11, 2002 I was
just a baby and allied with luck
blessing as you want to call it
to have been born in a warm city and
happy and colorful the so-called branch
from heaven to destiny which the only
danger that existed between my mind was
that the never wanting to go street
aviation for months the target the group
insurgent the camouflaged farc-ep
this group arrived to the place where
The deputies of the valley met in
full center of the city
the war an absurd resentment ripped
undoubtedly the loved ones of our
side
the argument of this national army
was that there was a bomb in the assembly
departmental and that they had to evacuate
immediately towards the battalion many
people climbed up to a z without being
deputies but all the deputies do not
they had no choice but to trust their
lives in the only way to get out alive
of the place
it was really like the prisoners
politicians climbed up a set to
a few kilometers after the search
had a mechanical inconvenience so
this national army decided
only take the deputies
minutes later they said
ladies and gentlemen we are the farc
this is a kidnapping
previously it was as well as these prisoners
politicians parents brothers brothers but
first of all Colombians and human beings
He spent sleepless nights tied to the
trees and without being able to hear the voice of
his family
the night of June 28, 2007 and
I already had use of reason and I remember
sit down with my dad every night to
watch the news since very small and
talk about the future of the country and for
more than that night the country did not
find out about the terrible mistake of the group
insurgent already was the absence of
parents and our brothers
what happened tonight according to lg the
farc was that they felt that the army
one of those many camps is approaching
in order to free the 12 deputies
between rifles that should never have
shoot bullets
ela and the country gave the farewell to eleven
men who were for more than
five years deprived of freedom
one of them sigifredo lopez who saved
that terrible massacre because in the
At the moment he was punished kilometers
further away from the place
since I was little I cried for this
country
I do not know a country without terror bombs
war murders rapes not what
and ultimately I know it hurts and
he decided to narrate very briefly this
done because for me it marks a before and a
later in my life
for more than tonight my death did not
father my brother son my grandfather and he died
a being that was father son brother grandfather
or friend
this day I discovered that it is not healthy
a society will be tied deeply
sick where indifference is normal
corruption and abuse death
I’ve ever heard a sentence that
He affirmed me north and said evil is
wrong
so everyone does it and on friday
as well
no one practice violence my
country
it really hurts me tears my soul
listen to so many stories that ask
shouting a new beginning sometimes
we have to abandon that path that
we had planned because we are no longer the
same person who made those plans
this is my country and cradle and home and school
of Colombian life and tomorrow my future
my children but first of all colombia is my
responsibility and things like these are me
they understand that it is not necessary to have
a university bachelor’s degree or a
charge in the congress to make a
change you need a pair of hands that
there are some eyes that see what is
they need to feel for reflections like
these in the year 2012 year that was
historical for this country
I felt at my desk like many
other nights because I love writing
with a paper in front of me and many
thoughts that lurked in the
pages that remain to be written but a
purpose in my mind that is hidden or
is hidden from those who can not
understand started saying that I
I sat with many other nights which
it is not true
I sat down firmly and quite
frankness about the fact that Colombia
deserves to be free
about the fact that colombia does not tolerate
more people with warmongering speeches and
banal thoughts
today I welcome an idea which does not
I understand why it manages to be so
controversial selfish I think fully
in the capabilities of all
Colombians in the example of ancestors
that have pitifully created a shadow
terror and war
the destination and says should end this
late with only 17 years old I follow
asking so many things that his only
answer lies in peace in a peace
that must not have neither party and surname
and religion in a peace where there is not even
Neither colors nor negotiations
in a peace that must be true
Conscious understanding tolerant a peace
that is called Colombia does not interest me in
absolute enter a political debate
but I wonder is what is it that
they want to continue at war they know peace
or plan to end the war with more
war
I find it very conceited and selfish the
made to think that doing it more
easy for the body and inconceivable
for consciousness
we find an individualistic peace and
I ‘ll tell you something so
simple and please listen peace
start by forgiving before
forgive the one that you call moss as
guerrilla politician or even
ringer let’s do the work more
difficult of all have to move
stop to hug the other to listen to me
they have to make no effort
physical
take a moment and ask for forgiveness
sorry this is in the consciousness that
when we do this we know
truly that peace begins with and
in us
peace does not sign saints timochenko
Ivan Marquez Uribe or for the Catatumbo
peace affirm children young people
adults grandparents peace affirms in
the guajira the amazon the choco the
Peace borders affirm hearts
sad that they do not want to be
distressed two tapas claim the
musicians and dancers peace affirms
literature because this peace of
Colombia
but this peace is not signed in Havana
Cuba in Cartagena or in Bogota does not
sign a contract to be signed here
the soul and the mind prevail and in the
heart as Jaime Garcia said
with the problem the Colombians is that
we have a comfortable position and
individual before life
the problem of colombia is you are me
who does not like to read who does not want
study that he only thinks about partying and
he is only interested in talking about football and
you young people do not assume the address
from your own country
nobody will come to save jealousy us
young let’s leave that life comfortable and
take action
let’s stop thinking that we are the
generation of the future next
generation is not on the agenda the future
They are my children and my grandchildren
us as denial of the cha
now the future this country is in
our hands and we owe as citizens
do the exercise to recover the
historical memory
what is it for us to know that
item number eight of the table
periodic sox and geno
if we can not go to a football match
and watch football in peace
what is it for us to know what
hypotenuse squared equals leg
square
mascate square central date if not
we know where we come from who we are
and what are our origins and still
so we think that the development of this
country are only roads and bridges
do then those roads
so much we want a theme that allows us
sit down at the same table and make
the road does not cross by crossing
distances but lies those
distances and make us the same Colombia
do then those bridges
so much we crave a nice stretch between
forgiveness and good deed we must
do the exercise of citizenship
being a citizen implies recognizing the other
as someone different but in between
of that difference is equal to us
We have ladies and gentlemen the
constitution of the 91 constitution that
allow us to open many doors to
recognition of the other as someone
valuable but we are sadly they are
used to seeing the difference as
something negative that we must recover that
sense
belonging to us we have to give it a
recognition to us and not leave
this talk equal to how we entered the
Forgiveness last we leave out of here
building peace with forgiveness and
good action
I know we can and we have to
to be able to build Colombia rich in
diversity a worthy colombia a
lineage that is not condemned to one hundred
years of loneliness but that does have a
second chance on earth
thank you very much
[Applause]
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