00:10In the city, there was a very good connection, but from the cities to the fields, no.
00:15The salary or the salary that you earn in the field,
00:18it reaches basically to survive for basic needs.
00:26If the young farmer could be able to pay his studies, his clothes, his activities, his health,
00:33with what the field produces, it would not be able to do it.
00:45One day in the field, really in the field, it really begins very early.
00:51It begins at 4 o'clock in the morning, where we eat breakfast,
00:56and each one is divided for their functions.
00:59My dad and my brother came at 5 o'clock,
01:02because they came to work at 7 o'clock in the morning,
01:05in the day of O'erro in the camp.
01:07My mom and I were working at the restaurant,
01:11we were walking at 5 o'clock in the morning to work at 6 o'clock.
01:15It was a hard day, because the day is 12 hours,
01:19and at the end of the day they pay us $20,000.
01:22We ended up all the day in the house,
01:25at 7 o'clock in the morning,
01:28and the day began again at 4 o'clock in the morning.
01:31I was looking for the hard work of the field,
01:33I said,
01:35I don't want to dedicate myself to the rest of my life.
01:49The lack of opportunities,
01:51lack of employment,
01:52simply the idea of looking for a better life,
01:54and sadly also the violence.
01:56The reason why we came out of O'erro,
02:00is that although it was not directly a red area,
02:05in the strict sense of the word,
02:07it had its history.
02:11The fact is that for 2011 or 2012,
02:15my family received a call
02:17in which they began to say
02:20that they knew personal things about us,
02:23from where my brother and I studied,
02:25from where we lived,
02:27among other things,
02:28and they began to ask us
02:29a certain amount of money
02:30that we couldn't pay.
02:32I was in the college at that time,
02:34and I wouldn't see that house,
02:36that house in which I had spent my childhood
02:38until a long time later.
02:46With the phenomenon of April 9, 1948,
02:49the violence that came later,
02:52the formation of liberal guerrillas
02:53and all that,
02:55also happened.
02:56People many times lost their territory,
02:59their land in the field
03:01for the displacement,
03:02and this was happening for a century.
03:04But I think the main reason
03:05also has to do with a cultural issue.
03:09That is,
03:10the cultural development
03:12at the level of education
03:13and the opportunities
03:15did not be managed in the province.
03:17The school was,
03:18I remember,
03:20from 8 to 11,
03:2111.30,
03:22the time in the schools is really short.
03:24So,
03:25one knew that
03:26he came out of the school
03:27and came to the house to change,
03:29to go to the field
03:30to help in what he had to do,
03:32in the tasks of,
03:33for example,
03:34to ensure the trees,
03:36to help agriculture,
03:38cultivar papas,
03:40cebollas.
03:50Today,
03:51our field is growing,
03:52this is a situation
03:53that has been presented
03:55for decades,
03:56and that,
03:56every day,
03:58with a lot of pain and concern,
03:59we see that it is moving.
04:05The young people are going to go to the field
04:06because the business is not rentable,
04:08so simple and so clear.
04:10If the young people
04:12could be able to pay their studies,
04:14their clothes,
04:15their activities,
04:15their health,
04:16with what they produce the field,
04:18it would not be able to go out of the field.
04:21So,
04:21the opportunities in the field
04:23are very few.
04:25If you don't get out of there,
04:26you don't have the opportunity to study
04:28and see beyond,
04:30because what you see in the field,
04:31basically,
04:33is that if you have food,
04:34you have,
04:36you have,
04:36you know,
04:37If you directly say,
04:39no,
04:39they are saying,
04:40I have to go.
04:40If you are asking a 20% of everything
04:43you earn monthly,
04:44you say,
04:45I can't pay this,
04:47I have to go to another place.
04:48And living in a capital
04:50represents that.
04:51Bogotá has been
04:52my city of opportunities.
04:55In this city,
04:56I have been able to work
04:57and study.
04:58It has allowed me to do both things.
05:00I got a job as a health care worker,
05:03which is where I started to see
05:04improvements in my life conditions
05:06and to be able to provide
05:08to my parents economically.
05:11When losing the young population
05:13in the rural areas,
05:14you lose the strength of work,
05:16you lose the capacity
05:17and these young people
05:19to cross the rows of
05:21workers,
05:21in the cities,
05:23the chains of misery
05:24and poverty.
05:26It has been a circumstance
05:27that I almost got back.
05:31Because my father
05:33made a brain drain,
05:37I was discapacitated,
05:39I was in a wheelchair,
05:40but what I was motivated to continue
05:43and continue to fight
05:44was that I could help them
05:47more than maybe
05:48to take care of them.
05:49Yes, I love my department,
05:52I love the municipality
05:53where I grew up
05:54and definitely
05:55I would have to come back.
05:57I would have to come back
05:58I would have to come back.
06:02So,
06:02I would have to come back.
06:02That's why the young people,
06:03even if they want their region,
06:05because they say that the young people
06:06want their region,
06:07they have to go to the cities
06:09to find opportunities.
06:11The supermarket's commercialization
06:13of Cundinamarca
06:14is an entity
06:14by the government's government,
06:16as its name indicates,
06:17created two years,
06:18that seeks to challenge
06:20the intermediaries
06:22in the food chain
06:23that add value
06:24but they don't value the products.
06:26The main purpose of the Secretary of Agriculture
06:29is to look for the food sovereignty,
06:31to guarantee the articulation between the different entities,
06:35not only from the Department, but at the national level,
06:38so that the citizens of the citizens
06:41come the food that cultivates our producers cundinamarques.
06:46Today, they pay very badly to the farmers
06:49because of their work.
06:50And a little bit of the agency is to pay the double
06:53what they would pay to a intermediary,
06:55and the agency seeks to sell those products
06:59and even so, the agency manages to leave
07:02to pay the logistics and all the stuff,
07:05quit the intermediaries of the media
07:07which are the ones who leave the money
07:09of the alimentation.
07:10It's like with our agency,
07:14with the Secretariat of Competitiveness
07:16and with several entities,
07:17articulating efforts to bring to the field
07:21productive projects,
07:22not only sustainable,
07:24but also rentable.
07:26Yes, there have been a lot of programs
07:28like staying in the field,
07:30like educational development
07:33for rural populations,
07:35farmers, etc.
07:36The State puts some instruments,
07:38some tools that use them,
07:41we also put our part,
07:43but you, the young people,
07:44must put their commitment
07:45to take on their productive project.
07:49What would you say
07:50or what recommendations would the society
07:53or the government
07:53to avoid this abandonment of the field?
07:56Because there are too many reasons
07:57to abandon the field,
07:59and it's not just violence.
08:01Education is too centralized.
08:03There are people who live in the cities,
08:05there are people who live in the field,
08:06but we are a country,
08:07and that country needs to be integrated.
08:10We have to take more education to rurality
08:13and free education.
08:15Because in Colombia
08:16there is a way to have education,
08:18education of good quality,
08:19public education.
08:21When that happens,
08:22the young people
08:23want to go to the city.
08:43Well, practically, I gave love to my children because my father gave them to me,
08:49and to my father and to my grandparents, and he was the most beautiful that God could give us.
08:53And then, I don't want to leave it until now.
08:57With my family, we have a project called Nubia e Hijos, and it consists relatively in bringing the field to
09:03the city for a screen.
09:05In a future, I would like to study a career that is related to the field, and that it would
09:15be good for them.
09:20Well, first, I'm in breakfast, I'm going to study.
09:25I'm going to study my job and I'm going to be in the water.
09:30It's a pleasure to listen to them in every interview.
09:33They say they would go to the city for the city, and they say they would go to the field
09:37and go to the field,
09:39so they would continue to experience it and give them a lot of opportunities to the younger people.
09:45To help the farmers, because they have seen a little bit of visualization, but from here to tomorrow, who knows?
09:55It's a clave.
09:56In the coups, you get caught, and you always look for the solution to keep going, and you don't want
10:02to let yourself get bored for one single step.
10:05In Colombia, to become more connected with foreign countries, you have to invest more in the field, because the field
10:17is life.
10:17Well, in the city, you have to go more careful, in other words, you can relax.
10:29The message for the young people is that don't abandon the field, because the field is life,
10:37and you can go to the city, and you can see the contamination.
10:42The field is talking about the territory, but the territory has complex relationships.
10:46It's not only land, it's people, interact, hope of life, we need to return the hope.
10:54We guarantee access to education, access to a dignified life, because it's not only to send military military to a
11:01certain point,
11:02that sometimes it's worse things, but that people in there have another exit,
11:06more than abandoning their territory to be able to have a safe life.
11:09We need hospitals in the rural, we need schools, we need to improve the issue of corruption,
11:16in Colombia, that the young people, like you, think that we can work honorably,
11:21that we are not going to fill it with money mountains,
11:23like circula, but that we are going to be a rich country.
11:26Los que están en las ciudades, que vengan al campo, disfruten, respiren aire fresco,
11:31pero eso sí, las basuras que lleguen, pues que se las lleven para allá para las ciudades y no contaminen.
11:39Pues yo creo que la juventud tiene diferente forma de pensar,
11:44pero cada día nosotros, por ejemplo a mí y a mis hijos, yo creo que el campo cada día nos
11:49regala un día más de felicidad, de tranquilidad y de amor.
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