00:00No, we can't normalize this image.
00:02Because no, it's normal that children of 13, 14, 15, 16 years old
00:07live with a gun.
00:08And not that they are dying in combat and confrontations
00:11between armed groups and illegals.
00:13Imagine a school with 10 students full of students.
00:16There would be almost 400 young people.
00:19That was the number of children, girls and adolescents
00:21recruited to the force last year.
00:23And if you ask if it's much or less, I answer it.
00:27It's much.
00:27Colombia is one of the five countries in the world
00:29with the most infant cases.
00:31And that crime has been disparaged by 1.005% in only 4 years.
00:36We have 37 cases in 2021 to 409 in 2024.
00:41And although that is already alarming,
00:42there is a lot more serious issue than it is in the country.
00:45Those men of age who are dying in the files of armed armed groups.
00:49We have the registries of medical medicine
00:50and we find out that from January to November of 2024,
00:54nine young men who were killed by armed armed groups
00:56fallecieron in combat and confrontations.
00:58The situation in the beginning of 2025 is much more complex.
01:02That same population only died in the month of January.
01:05Yes, as you heard, in 31 days of this year,
01:08the same number that in 334 days of the previous year.
01:12The majority of them died in the combat
01:15that has been given in the Catatumbo and Guaviare.
01:17And no so is to repeat it.
01:18All men in the groups armed armed groups are victims.
01:22As if there is no pressure for their ingreses
01:24and seems to be a voluntary decision,
01:25it is permeable by a context of empobrecimiento,
01:28lack of opportunities and exposure to control of these structures,
01:31which many times are the only example of power,
01:34authority and capacity adquisitive
01:36in the regions apart from where they live in these young people.
01:38Let's put an example of the real life.
01:40A couple of months, I went to the Sabana del Yarí
01:42between the departments of Caquetá and Meta
01:44and talked to four young members of a dissident of the FARC,
01:47which are in dialogue with the government Petro.
01:49When I asked them if they would like to study
01:51in case of an agreement,
01:53they answered that no.
01:54Because in the region where they grew up
01:56a 15 hours of a city,
01:57it was impossible to pay for a university.
02:00In territories like that,
02:01where there is no interconexión eléctrica,
02:03where there is to walk 2 or more hours to go to school,
02:06where there are high levels of poverty and nutrition,
02:08where there is never a professional
02:10that serves as an example of children,
02:11entering an illegal group represents an option of life for young people.
02:15What is behind the drama of a country
02:17who sees their children in the war?
02:18We invite you to read the whole report
02:20on El Espectador y Colombia más 20.
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