biggest challenges has been this year
prepare this conference
precisely because when I met
paula said laura we want you to tell your
story but we want the sources
in a way that never before
counted and it turns out that my story is
a life story and I have left
complicated not to count it equally
after a lot of thinking that there is a
reflection many times after
It’s my story
people come and tell me laura
after hearing what happened to me
nothing has happened to me and I think that
it’s not true I think we’ve all been
passed many things because they are the
stories that make us today
people that we are
in my case when I was nine years old
kidnapped by the n while attending
the church with my sister of five years
my mom and 200 other people
that day while we were in mass
guerrilla
military dress stood behind the
father while giving the sermon and
he whispered something in his ear
immediately the father under his hands and
he told everyone there is a bomb under
one of the cars and we have going to
play in those two vans all the
people that were there people
adult children we all run out to
ride on these trucks that were going
to take the third brigade but to
our surprise when they opened the
doors after having traveled as 15
minutes by a road we were not
in the third brigade we were
kidnapped this time I had the fortune to
return that same day home with my
low mom with my sister and with others
women
we managed to escape
see us as we never would have thought
That day they sent us to ride in a
taxi because being all in a kiosk and
they are going to start moving women
and the children to a small school
where they could drink water go to the bathroom
at that moment in that taxi that taxi
stuck on a stone and started a
horrible shooting of those who
helicopters towards the guerrillas
they are in full combat and we
Stuffed in a taxi
immediately my mom said we got off
but how are you going to get down liliana until
there we were right in front of where
there were many guerrillas and mom said
we got off or we’re going to die here
we got they got the other
ladies behind my mom and we played
in a house that had a house very
humble
We started knocking on the door and no one
I wanted to open suddenly open the door
and all old ladies of this size leave
150 with white and long hair
scared them I think that more than
we ask you to please us
they let us know that we were
kidnapped do not let go and it’s that
home
we saw through a tiny window like
the people who had been in the
church that were there in front of
our eyes
they walked to school and we
there
fortunately that day the son of a
of the old ladies helped us with other
people
find our way out we went by
behind the house with the taxi driver who
he was also kidnapped and we got
approaching a couple of military men who
they helped escape to fate was not the
same for many of the people that
day but at least in my case
I thought it would be the first and the
last time and it was not like that
two years later with 11 years old he was in
the school bus is my house in Cali and
today with my family lives
let’s do to the outskirts and I already saw
my house among several paddocks when
suddenly we came down a very street
small and there were two cars parked
that blocked the way
at that moment the bus stopped
immediately
five militiamen armed to the
teeth were mounted to the school bus
The first thing they did was to point
driver who had picked me up from
who was four years old and second a
man stood in the middle of the bus and
with a machine gun point to the ceiling and
he said drop that moment no
child said no word
immediately we all say it and what
next that I felt at that moment
it was like a big kids hand there
I took my arm and pulled out the pus
leaving was in the last row and I saw
how I left all my classmates
among them my sister who also
was there was abducted by
many months and maybe at this time
you will be thinking good the
reason they invited him he has things that
tell
Well, I think that I do not think that everyone
here we have things to tell
it’s more the story that I bring you today
it’s the story of it when I did not count
my stories and second kidnapping was a
very particular kidnapping
it was seven months seven difficult
months
at age 11 I thought that day that
I was going to get to my house to have lunch
do homework to see my mom and me
dad and my sister and suddenly in a
life changed me
I did not get to my house anymore I do not know what
for seven months my house was in
half of people who hated me nobody
he loved me and I did not love them either
we were innate enemies without having
known before
The first thing I thought was that if I
it mattered the worst that I could contribute
they’re going to bore me and they were going to
break free
that was my strategy and that’s how it started
the first three months were from
total denial but I wanted to be there
but I wanted to be with them I wanted
be in my house and I started doing it
worse than I could anything I liked the
food was horrible tournament blew him
it turns out that the only thing I achieved with
this strategy was to move away more and
get them away from me close some
opportunity that he had to
we could talk
it was then when one day totally
turn a zero to the left more alone
that nothing because of me
I decided that I could soon give you the
chance to another strategy
to see if it did not work and what I did in
this time it was that me
wakes up most of the night for me in
My cove in the tent where I
he was sleeping in the jungle there was a small
a small team throughout the night
and already in the morning
I started to look and started to look at
boots of the guerrillas that 11 he
they directed the rancha to breakfast
the streak is the kitchen I started to
count them and when I was sure that
they were all inside scare door
as well as more or less I’m right now
I put on my boots I combed my hair and left and I
I stopped at the door of that pit where
they were all having breakfast and I looked at them and
I said days as dawn all of me
they looked come you here with come with
hungry there was a stack of 20
guerrillas sitting on a long bench
they moved for a side 10 and to
the other side ten that is half
me my heart gonna get
I said at any time I’m going to
say hear what happens to you
seriously expensive
really and it did not happen to june and when
was finishing a guerrilla fighter
stopped and told me to hear china today for firewood
accompanies me to firewood that the scare already and
pique not not be but I had nothing
to lose
I was betting on them and suddenly
they also a little to me says ready
and that day I felt useful that day
I felt that my life was beginning to change
like those days that sometimes we have to
nothing extraordinary happens but that
some reason for some reflection that
we have
We felt that there was a little bit
change and that’s how it was
from that day I started to give me the
opportunity to meet people
that I hated so much without knowing why
I hated them
well obviously in this country that has
lived from the war for so many years we
it’s so hard to think why hate
a guerrilla but I beyond a
guerrilla I wanted to say I hate this
person because I know her and I fall
wrong and I know what he does and during
four months that I have left
kidnapped
what started to happen was that two
worlds two Colombian worlds but
completely different
they started to meet them
they asked about my family that
it meant and that it felt to have dad
and mom and live with my sister and eat
three times a day
questions that I never had
happened to ask me what does it mean that
it felt like riding in an elevator like
they were the escalators as was
have cable television and the
questions I asked them
also they make them think or at
less to me as the case of one of the
women than one of the guerrillas
there that one day I asked him why
what had gone to the guerrillas and why
what had not stayed with his family
with her brothers playing and she is
they watered their eyes
I said you know why because my
family my stepfather abused and when
she told me that I did not even understand
what it means when they released me that
same day after seven long months
I came to my house happy for me it
had closed a chapter and it started
another completely new and what
I had passed
I was in the past and now I was happy
I was taller I was more chubby
he is stronger he had walked a lot
that day my mom told me the auris there
the journalists at the entrance you feel
ok to talk to them and I said yes
clear when to enter the journalists and
we started talking
I started to notice that your questions as
what were not very clear to me
special laura tell us what do you think
of these heartless guerrillas who
they all deserve to be in jail
how you were treated what do you think about this
people who do not deserve to be where they are
the only thing that occurred to me in that
moment is that they have done things
bad or very bad but with me
they behaved well and I do not know I was asked
if you consider them my friends and I said
at that time that if at 12 years old
we build a speech at 12 years
we talk about our own
experience and I totally unprepared
talk about what he had lived had
been people who had tried
for treating me well I can not say that
They were loving and loving because
they have never received it
but I appreciate what they did for me
the next day in the newspaper of the
city there was a floor article to
roof two leaves and a big sign
top in bold capital letters that
I said at times I miss the mountain
you know the 2002 there was close to
the kidnapped in Colombia and Cali
being one of the cities that most
representation had in this sad
number at that time I arrived at school and
Many friends started telling me about
auris that my parents say that if you
visit of riera b lauris is not that my
dad are saying that I do not you
matter we kidnapped
comments like these that the children of
12 years ago we are again
transparent
this was one of the things that has most
hurt in life
who more than me who has just been
kidnapped seven months had what
horrible that it was not having freedom what
horrible that it was sleeping in a cove
every day without knowing if one day
I was going to bomb a camp
I felt so bad that I thought that what
the best that I could do was
shut up and not having to return to a
story like mine did not mean
lies but I did not want to either
hurt anyone ever again for 13 years
re-told my story in public
I did not have traumas why I did not have them
my friends and my friends always
discounted without any problem but in
public in colombia never makes two
years I got a call from my office
and suddenly they call me and they say hello
laura talk and talk about pacifist who
it’s a magazine and we want to make you a
interview
Of course I am a project coordinator
Social managed several projects which
they want me to tell them they answer me
Laura
we do not want to ask you
projects we want to know your
history of forgiveness
at that moment I was paralyzed
I told them good ready then it’s called
morning
well and I just hung up said what is my
history of forgiveness for thirteen years
I had hidden in the most recondite
story and he had not given me the
opportunity
that of analyzing what had happened with
meego then at that moment I started reading
I told my boyfriend to bring me a book
about forgiveness and reconciliation
I started to understand what it was that
had happened to me because if there was
been a natural process there had never been
hated but I did not know what it was that
had passed and in that process of
understand a little or very well of
understand my story completely
I learned something that changed my life and
that today I want to share with you
I learned that every time we have a
difficult moment in life a moment
that we overcome or moment infinitely
happy that also changes us all
absolutely all
we acquired a superpower ovaries and
they will be saying good so that you
superpower superpower right now
I believe that here we all have a
superpower when after analyzing
for a long time my story of talking
with people leads to open a little
plus
I understood that he had achieved five
superpowers that I was not the same for
five reasons the first power had
been acceptance at the beginning as
I told them my denial was total but
I already understood and understood here that
acceptance of reality that the time
above all it’s a special topic does not exist
the future does not exist the past because they are
irrational
there is only today laura ulloa stop in
this scenario and you there I understood
the power of empathy
I understood that what happened to me there
it was a day stop judging before
to know empathy is that is to understand
why the other people are
they behave differently from us and
understand that there is a reason for each
one of us and not judge before
enter before knowing is an element
key to have good relationships
to have immense happiness with the
people we know
the third was the smile
I understood that the smile is a circle
virtuous generates a virtuous circle
infinitely powerful not only for me
not only for us but for
who share them gives us happiness
always and sometimes people I
they say of the work but it ‘s because
she took so happy does not mean that no
have problems in life
what happens is that for me the simple
fact of being alive
it’s a reason to smile and fourth
superpower was the thanks
thank everything that happens to us
thank when good things happen to us
and bad and appreciates the energies that we
gives life to be able to overcome them because
all of those make us what we are today
if it had not been for these four
superpowers could not have reached
the greatest of all that is the
sorry
today I am the fruit of forgiveness
I am happy and happy because I did not spend
my energies in absolutely nobody who
to whom I want to send a message
of hate
I am selfish and for that I forgive because
the energies are not to be spent on
who do not want the energies are
to share them
for marx to grow
today I want to tell you that these
My superpowers are transferable
this is excellent news too
same as yours and the way
most important and the only way to
can transfer a superpower is to
through telling our stories
that’s why all our stories have
an infinitely large value
we can not think that we have not been
past nothing because our history does not
it is infinitely dangerous or super
cool a whole tussa changes us the
lifetime
and we have to be proud of
that is no less important it is true that
they’re laughing because you’re going to see yy
the truth is that when we count
our stories for little ones that
look like
the message is there when we have
overcome the superpower is there and
It is in us and is how
we are going to broadcast so today I want
ask you to please tell
your stories in this world
we need more heroes and groupers
princesses
We need to share our powers
our superpowers with others
so that in the suitcase of each life
one is in all the tools
necessary to face the life of the
better way
thank you very much
and
and
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