The second week of June has passed and these are the local news from June 13-18 that you need to know to keep up to date with what's happening locally.
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San Francisco firefighters rescued a man from a cliff north of Ocean Beach on Monday morning. The man was hoisted to safety from a ledge below the former Cliff House restaurant. The rescued man, who was not injured, told firefighters he was curious and climbed down to the ledge, but was unable to climb back down on his own.
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Millbrae City Councilman Anders Fung said he was attacked over the weekend in San Francisco near Lands End Lookout. The attack took place around 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 11, according to U.S. Park Police, who responded to the incident.
Fung posted on Facebook early Sunday, saying two young men wearing hoodies threw a concrete block that hit his head.
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Three parrot chicks that were being smuggled into the U.S. have been rescued and have a new home at the San Francisco Zoo and Gardens.
The yellow-crowned Amazon parrots were 10 weeks old when they were confiscated and placed at the zoo by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, zoo officials said Monday.
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A 32-year-old man was killed in a shooting Monday night in San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood, according to police. The shooting was reported at 10:41 p.m. in the 1300 block of Ingalls Street, and officers learned the victim was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
No arrests have been made in connection with the shooting and suspect details were not immediately released.
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Monday's NBA championship parade for the Golden State Warriors along Market Street in San Francisco has been extended two more blocks. The parade route, along Market Street, will begin at Main Street. The parade was originally planned to extend to Sixth Street, but the procession will be extended two blocks to Eighth Street.
The Warriors, who won their fourth NBA Finals in eight years on Thursday night, arrived home at San Francisco International Airport on Friday afternoon.
Monday's parade begins at 11:20 a.m. at the intersection of Market and Main streets. It is expected to last until around 2 p.m., when it will end at Market and Eighth streets.
Walter Agredo Muñoz, human rights defender in Colombia. Photo: Alina Duarte. Global Exchange – Peninsula 360 Press
The failed social and economic policies of the Colombian government are some of the main reasons for the strikes and social unrest in the country in 2020 and 2021, as well as the detriment of people's possibilities and capabilities to have a dignified life.
Colombian human rights defender Walter Agredo Muñoz said in an interview with Global Exchange and Península 360 Press that "society was taken by surprise when the anger accumulated over sensitive issues such as inequality, exclusion and corruption by the country's right wing led to strikes by the population."
And during 2020, the activist said, inequality "cost many lives", especially among young people in Santiago de Cali, where the social outbreak led to people becoming aware, which generated demonstrations of solidarity among those protesting on the part of society, supporting the cause with humanitarian accompaniment.
Interviewed by reporter Alina Duarte, Agredo Muñoz mentioned that young people are the creators of the first lines of protest against the state because they represent a stigmatized youth that continually seeks to belong to an economic and social system that constantly, for reasons of preparation and prejudices, rejects them.
This, he continues, "leads to the exhaustion of the young people who decided to organize and meet in different parts of Cali, Puerto Resistencia and Siloé, and who were unjustly linked to the National Liberation Army as a way of stigmatizing them, which was justification by the government to kill them."
In response to the protests, the government sent General Eduardo Enrique Zapateiro Altamiranda, who said he would restore order in less than two weeks. However, the problem took up to three months to resolve, but not before implementing "terrorist" policies among the population, as the human rights defender mentions.
One of the sectors most affected by the policies of order implemented by the government following the strikes of 2020 and 2021, in addition to organizations, is the countryside. This is because the peasant sector has experienced most of the attacks by a terrorist state disguised as a democracy, he said.
Agredo Muñoz, who also considers himself part of the Historic Pact, mentions that he fears that the results of the elections to be held on June 19 will not be experienced as an election, but as an imposition, in response to which, the different sectors that make up the "Pact", such as women, Afro-Colombians, indigenous people and the LGBTI community, would be willing to use legal means and channels to carry out peaceful social protests.
The draft of the Historic Pact has been seen to be distorted by the opposition
Agredo Muñoz talks about the distortion that the concept of the "Historic Pact" headed by candidate Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez has suffered in Colombia, and states that there has been a distortion since properties will be expropriated, when in reality the pact says: it is focused on ensuring that people with limited resources have guaranteed basic services and are attended to with quality services.
"Living well, as they call it in Colombia, refers to that, to enjoying the basic rights of health, education and housing."
This article was produced with the support of a group of journalists covering the first round of elections in Colombia, sponsored by the organization Global Exchange, in collaboration with Península 360 Press.
The International Football Federation -FIFA- announced the selection of the San Francisco Bay Area as the official host community with its Levi's Stadium for the 2026 World Cup, which will be played jointly in Canada, Mexico and the USA.
In a live, globally televised announcement from New York City, the Federation announced that the Bay Area was included among the 16 cities that will host matches during the tournament, which will feature 48 teams and a record 80 matches for the first time in its history.
“The Bay Area and Los Angeles are home to cutting-edge sports venues, world-class restaurants, hotels and some of the world’s largest companies, but what truly makes them special is their people,” said Governor Gavin Newsom.
“Both the Bay Area and Los Angeles have diverse communities that thrive on embracing people and ideas from around the world and have been growing soccer hubs for generations. California is a beacon of hope for immigrants around the world and we are excited to showcase our global community to the world, right here in our own backyard as hosts of the World Cup.”
Santa Clara City Councilwoman Karen Hardy said, “Hosting an event like the FIFA World Cup is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us and all soccer-loving Santa Clara residents.”
“This will bring a jolt of excitement to our community, but it will also be a significant economic boost for businesses that are coming out of two years of COVID-19 right now and need it more than ever.”
For Al Guido, Chairman of the San Francisco 49ers and Chairman of the Bay Area Host Committee Board, “Over the past eight years, innovative technology, sustainability and fan-centric design elements have cemented Levi's Stadium among the nation's premier sports and entertainment venues.”
“This place was made to host events like the FIFA World Cup, an event that will generate continued economic activity for our region for the next four years and beyond,” he added.
It should be noted that this week’s announcement follows decades of enthusiasm for soccer in the Bay Area, including the highest youth participation ever and a passionate fan base for the San Jose Earthquakes, the local professional team.
“Hosting FIFA World Cup matches in the Bay Area will not only attract visitors from around the world to experience what our region has to offer, but will reinvigorate the San José Earthquakes’ ongoing efforts to grow the sport in our communities,” said Jared Shawlee, team president.
In addition to San Jose, other host cities for the 2026 World Cup in the US will include Los Angeles, Kansas, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami and New York/New Jersey.
While in Canada the venues will be Toronto and Vancouver, and in Mexico, Guadalajara ‒Akron Stadium‒, Monterrey ‒BBVA Stadium‒ and Mexico City ‒Azteca Stadium‒.
Francia Márquez, candidate for vice president of Colombia for the Historic Pact party. Photo: Manuel Ortiz. Global Exchange – Península 360 Press
Colombia is preparing for a second round of elections. With 8.5 million votes in the first round, Gustavo Petro, the candidate of the Historic Pact, whose vice-presidential running mate is Francia Márquez, will face the right-wing option, represented by Rodolfo Hernández, who did not reach 6 million.
According to the report of the organization Voto Pacífico, in this region of the country there was a high rate of abstentionism. We spoke with the independent journalist Témoris Grecko, special correspondent of Global Exchangeand Peninsula 360 Press, about the main causes of this phenomenon, as well as his perception of the atmosphere that exists a few hours before the second round.
What specific region are you located in?
We are visiting towns on the coast of the department of Cauca, in the Pacific region of Colombia.
How do you perceive the atmosphere? The report “The Vote Will Be Peaceful or It Will Not Be” denounces pressure from armed groups to prevent people from going to the polls. Have you seen people's fear?
People seem calm, but also a little worried. They are alert to what could happen; there was a motor bomb attack in Suárez, which is in another part of the Cauca department, and before that there was one in Corinto. It is known that there are armed groups that are upset, that could try to affect the elections, not so much because they are interested in the elections themselves, but because some of their leaders have been killed and also because it seems that a national channel published information infiltrating a reporter into an armed group. So, this annoyance could translate into some kind of violent act.
Are there displacements due to violence in the area where you are located?
Yes, there are a lot of people. It is normal for people here to talk about relatives or friends who are in other parts of the country, maybe from the department, maybe from the country, because they have been forced to leave their homes.
According to the aforementioned report, Petro was voted for massively in this region, with 1,962,391 votes in the four departments. Do you think people have hope for change? Do you see it as possible?
In fact, one of the tasks ahead of them is to ensure that those people who have been displaced, or some of those people, as they are still registered here, at least have the opportunity to come and vote, to exercise their right to vote.
How much did the Francia Márquez factor influence the above numbers?
In these Pacific regions, from what we have been able to see, most people are in favour of Petro; there is no propaganda for Rodolfo Hernández, only for Petro and Francia, and this in part has to do with Francia and the identification they feel with her. Although Petro has done some things in the past that have generated doubts in this sector of the population, Francia is a person they feel very close to and this consolidates their will to support her.
So yes, there is enormous hope; they have the idea that France and Petro will be able to create the conditions to end the violence, the armed conflict, and in this way they believe that their lives will improve a lot.
They have a history of promoting peace talks when [Juan Manuel] Santos governed and reaching agreements, and that for a moment led to a significant reduction in violence that allowed them to develop, move around and be more relaxed. Now with the government of [Iván] Duque, that ended and violence resurged, and that is why they feel more threatened when carrying out their activities and that inhibits them a lot.
So, they do have great hope, not only in the projects that they can carry out for economic and social development, but above all, in ending the violence so that they can live in peace.
This article was produced with the support of a group of journalists covering the second round of elections in Colombia, sponsored by the Global Exchange organization in collaboration with Península 360 Press.
José Alberto Tejada Echeverri, better known as “El Cucho de Canal 2,” said that young people in Colombia are willing to “stand up” to electoral fraud in the presidential elections. Photo: Alina Duarte. Global Exchange – Península 360 Press.
The "boys" are willing to stand up to a possible fraud in Colombia in the second round of presidential elections and that could give the position to the candidate Rodolfo Hernández, said the elected representative to the Valle del Cauca congress for the Historic Pact, Jose Alberto Tejada Echeverri, better known as “El Cucho from Channel 2”.
"If Rodolfo Hernández is elected, don't think he'll do well. These kids are ready to stand up to him, and if it's Petro, I hope that the kids are also vigilant, both towards the government and towards the congressmen who are being elected, because the worst thing that can happen to us is to betray the hope of these people who came out in the uprising," said the journalist and businessman from Cali, Colombia.
In an interview with Alina Duarte, one of the reporters covering the second round of elections in Colombia, sponsored by the organization Global Exchange in collaboration with Península 360 Press, El Cucho stressed that the country "is not governed by politicians, but by criminal mafias that use trivial politicians to maintain economic, territorial, social and political power."
In this regard, he pointed out that the biggest problem Colombia has is that the political class has disappeared, because he said, "there are no longer ideas or great State proposals, but a group of "lobbyists" and criminals dressed as politicians who have done nothing but co-opt public income and assets for their own purposes, taking over large swathes of the national territory."
In response, he said that the "youngsters" feel that they are living in a borrowed country, "a country that is not theirs" despite having been born there, and that "with aggression they have occupied Cali as a laboratory for social explosion. What they are causing is for this to get out of hand."
"I hope we are wrong, but if they continue to capture young people of whom there is no evidence that they are terrorists, criminals or murderers, while one sees that the police who killed young people who disappeared and mutilated young people are not harmed, that generates anger in the heart and could explode and it seems that is what the current government wants," he said.
She added that Colombia is not the same after April 28, 2021, because, she said, on that day "the Second Republic was born, one where girls and boys who were not taken into account, where they told everyone: we exist and we do not want to continue being left out of the cake, we do not want to be treated any longer with precarious incomes, without food, without education and you stealing from the country in front of us. So, Colombia will not be the same."
Forecast for this Sunday, is there hope?
As the leader of the broad front of the Historic Pact in Cali, and as an elected congressman, he pointed out that he hopes that Gustavo Petro will be allowed to win the presidency "and that they will not boycott this dream of a country."
Tejada explained that all the conditions exist for Petro to be president, since "there is no doubt that the majority decision of the people of Colombia is that Petro and Francia will be the new government."
Another thing, he said, is whether political, security and media conditions allow it.
«Now I speak to you as an analyst, I am very skeptical about this. I think that they are already forcing Petro to recognize and accept the results in advance. They are denying him the right to be defeated in a fair trial. This message must be read between the lines. This is an authoritarian act, a fascist act.»
In addition, he said that the detention of young people is a strategy of fear. "Fear is the greatest ingredient for generating social immobility, because when you are afraid, you buy security, you no longer buy reasons."
He added that, in addition to everything, a script is being prepared with two possible scenarios. The first, "where Petro is not allowed to win with a monumental fraud, with a chaos that breaks institutional possibilities of democratic elections, which can generate many serious situations."
While the second is to let him win, but not to take possession.
«From June 19 to August 7, many things can happen, such as what happened in Colombia in 1953, where the incumbent president was overthrown by a coup d'état and the elections are set aside. Second, the opposing candidate may win and be called to trial, and he may not be allowed to take office, and if he does, the Supreme Court will immediately suspend him from office and leave the vice president in charge, an unscrupulous and inexperienced woman who will be easy prey to the manipulation that this current regime will do to its new government, because she is inexperienced.»
A third option, he stressed, is that Rodolfo should not be removed from office - if he wins - and that he should be allowed to take office through "legalistic" formulas where he will be warned: "Look, my son, you will remain in power, but you are practically on the verge of going to jail, there we will prevent them from doing anything to you, but you will let us govern in exchange for your freedom and your assets, in exchange for us continuing to manage the country as we wish."
And finally, one where Petro's Republic is made "unlivable, he is subjected to a bloody coup or killed from June 19 to August 6 or after August 7, is the scenario I see as an analyst."
This article was produced with the support of a group of journalists covering the second round of elections in Colombia, sponsored by the Global Exchange organization in collaboration with Península 360 Press.
It is hard to believe that a calm and gentle young man, as he has been seen in at least a couple of interviews, could have made big businessmen in Silicon Valley tremble, as did Alexandr Wang, who at 21 years old was named by Forbes magazine as one of the youngest new billionaires in the world.
Of Chinese origin, with scientist parents and academic siblings, he spent his childhood at the New Mexico Military Base, the same base where the first atomic bomb was dropped.
Unlike other entrepreneurs, Wang started from scratch and managed to get into one of the most prestigious universities in the technological field in the entire United States.
In 2016, surrounded by a scientific environment due to his own family background and shortly after saying goodbye to his teenage years, Alexandr, then 19 years old, created in his bedroom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) one of the most recent and, presumably, the last of the "unicorn" start-ups, a company whose value reaches more than one billion dollars without presence on the stock exchange.
Scale Al, the company created by Alexandr Wang and which is on par with the achievements developed by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, is dedicated to mass data labeling that, with the help of artificial intelligence, enables companies to obtain enlightening answers when making decisions.
Simply put, company-generated material such as audio transcripts, images, documents, and more is collected by Scale AI software, translating that data into insightful answers for corporations across all industries.
That's why the company of Silicon Valley's youngest rebel, whose headquarters are in California, helps around 300 clients, including General Motors, Uber, PayPal, Airbnb, Toyota and even the US Army.
Although the young businessman rubs shoulders with the most powerful businessmen, the family teachings that he boasts about in interviews such as the one carried out by Index Ventures, are the typical greetings that a son receives from his kind father.
And Wang, as a chess fanatic, learned from his father from a very young age the toughness and mental strength that this game implies in order to apply it in all life scenarios, including that of artificial intelligence (AI).
The original idea for Scale AI, says Alexandr Wang, “came because with artificial intelligence you can do absolutely everything, including collecting the data that companies generate.”
Such a revelation, as atomic as his origins, led him to decide to give up his studies during his first year at MIT in Massachusetts, where he curiously tested his ideas by trying to discover which of his roommates stole his food, as well as calculating how often he should go shopping.
Among his first experiments, Wang placed a small camera inside the refrigerator, which generated a huge number of images that gave rise to his commitment to the development of artificial intelligence as well as the creation of a company that could catalogue all the stored material.
That same summer, while Wang was trying to figure out which of his roommates was stealing his food, he founded Scale AI.
The development of the Scale AI company took off thanks to “Y Combinator”, the company that powered Dropbox, Twitch and Airbnb, investing in the project of the young man with aspirations of being a detective, making him one of the richest people under 30 in the world, since it is estimated that he owns 15 percent of Scale, valued by investors at 7.3 billion dollars in 2021.
In addition to owning one of the most coveted sites by Silicon Valley and world entrepreneurs, Alexander Wang, who shares a name with one of the most emblematic clothing designers of the millennial generation, takes the time to have a personal blog where he shares his learnings about building companies with a first-person message “Things I've learned building a company” – Things I learned building a company” for which it is necessary to subscribe.
As if that were not enough, the young entrepreneur feeds his social networks with images of his travels around the world, as he does on Instagram (@alexanddeer) and on Twitter (@alexandr_wang), where he has 22.4 million followers and shares his most recent successes.
With information from El País, Forbes and Fortune.
A 19-year-old man was arrested by Redwood City police after his vehicle was searched for a minor infraction, and a "phantom" firearm was found, as it was not registered.
Juan Garrido Aguilar was arrested for possession of a loaded 9mm weapon that was in his pants pocket, authorities said.
The vehicle was stopped and searched at the intersection of Broadway and Chestnut streets, the Police Department said in a statement.
Garrido Aguilar was booked into the San Mateo County Jail on charges of carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm.
The Redwood City Police Department said the arrest comes as part of an effort to keep dangerous firearms off the streets. “Our officers work tirelessly to keep Redwood City safe!”
This Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration The FDA has authorized emergency use of the Moderna vaccine for children 6 months to 4 years of age and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 disease.
For the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, the FDA amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) to include use of the vaccine in individuals 6 months through 17 years of age. The vaccine had been authorized for use in adults 18 years of age and older.
For the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the FDA amended the EUA to authorize use of the vaccine in people 6 months to 4 years of age. In addition, the vaccine had already been authorized for use in people 5 years of age and older.
The agency determined that the known and potential benefits of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the known and potential risks in the pediatric populations for which each vaccine is authorized for use.
Prior to the decision to authorize these vaccines for the respective pediatric populations, the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee was consulted and voted in favor of the authorizations.
“Many parents, caregivers, and physicians have been waiting for a vaccine for younger children, and this action will help protect those younger than 6 months of age. As we have seen with older age groups, we expect that vaccines for younger children will provide protection against the most severe outcomes of COVID-19, such as hospitalization and death,” said FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert M. Califf.
“Child care providers can be confident in the safety and effectiveness of these COVID-19 vaccines and can be assured that the agency was thorough in its evaluation of the data,” she added.
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is administered as a two-dose primary series, one month apart, to individuals 6 months through 17 years of age. The vaccine is also authorized to provide a third dose of the primary series at least one month after the second dose for individuals in this age group who have been determined to have certain types of immunosuppression.
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is administered as a three-dose primary series in which the initial two doses are administered three weeks apart followed by a third dose administered at least eight weeks after the second dose in individuals 6 months to 4 years of age.
“As with all vaccines for any population, in authorizing COVID-19 vaccines intended for pediatric age groups, the FDA is ensuring that our evaluation and analysis of the data is rigorous and thorough,” said Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
Effective for children from six months to four years of age.
The effectiveness and safety data evaluated and analyzed by the FDA for the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine to support the EUA for these pediatric populations were generated in two ongoing, randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trials in the United States and Canada that included infants, children, and adolescents.
Meanwhile, the efficacy and safety data evaluated and analyzed by the FDA for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were generated in an ongoing, randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial in the United States and internationally that enrolled infants and children, where the immune response to the vaccine for both age groups of children was found to be comparable to that of older participants.
Este jueves, Juan Toscano-Anderson se convirtió en leyenda, pues se ganó el título al primer jugador mexicano en ganar un anillo de campeonato en las Finales de la NBA.
La ex-estrella de Fuerza Regia de la Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional de México logró incursionar en la NBA, tres años más tarde y bajo el número 95, ha logrado alzar el trofeo Larry O’Brien.
Los Warriors fueron a Boston y ganaron el juego decisivo en la carrera por obtener el título, ganando cuatro de los siete partidos para hacerse con su primer campeonato desde que se mudaron de Oakland a San Francisco en 2019.
Stephen Curry fue el máximo anotador del equipo con 34 puntos, con Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Andrew Wiggins y Jordan Poole también anotando puntos de dos dígitos.
Miles de fanáticos de los Warriors asistieron a una fiesta para ver el Juego 6 en el estadio local del equipo, Chase Center, y más vieron el juego fuera del estadio en una pantalla gigante en la plaza de Thrive City.
Toscano-Anderson nació en California, pero tiene raíces mexicanas por parte de su madre quien es originaria de Michoacán. Si bien Juan no logró jugar durante el último partido de los Warriors, ya es el primer mexicano en ser campeón de la NBA.
El periodista José Alberto Tejada Echeverry hizo un llamado a los jóvenes colombianos para que mantengan una «resistencia pacífica» Foto: Manuel Ortiz. P360P
The journalist Jose Alberto Tejada Echeverri, llamó a la «muchachada» ‒jóvenes‒ de Colombia a no caer en provocaciones ante «la bota del Estado», el cual podría imputarlos por supuestos delitos en diversas manifestaciones que se realizan en el país, de cara a la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales que se llevarán a cabo este domingo 19 de junio donde Gustavo Petro y Rodolfo Hernández se disputarán el cargo.
«De nuevo les digo y les he dicho y les seguiré diciendo a los muchachos y muchachas del estallido social: ¡No se dejen provocar, no se dejen provocar! ¡Aguanten muchachos y muchachas! La dignidad de su resistencia pacífica es más honda es más grande, es más antigua que la vulgaridad y la infamia del régimen en el poder» subrayó el también empresario y político a través de un video difundido este miércoles por la tarde en su página de Facebook.
El video, que hasta el momento cuenta con más de 131 mil reproducciones, destaca que jóvenes, que hacen la lucha de clases en el país llevan más de 20 años «viviendo en un país prestado» y están cansados de «ser inquilinos de tercera categoría en su propio país de nacimiento».
Ellos, dijo, lo único que están pidiendo es «que les reconozcamos el derecho a tener esperanza en su futuro».
En ese sentido, pidió a la «muchachada» aguantar, cuidar al país, no dejarse llevar a escenarios de violencia y de caos.
«Levanten la bandera de su dignidad como la levantaron el 28 de abril del año pasado, levanten la bandera de su resistencia pacífica, levanten la bandera de la memoria de sus muertos, del dolor de sus mutilados, del dolor de sus desaparecidos, del dolor de sus heridos, del dolor de sus capturados, pero, ¡No se dejen provocar!», puntualizó.
El «Cucho Tejada», como lo conocen en Colombia, destacó que «el régimen» busca que los jóvenes contesten, intenten armarse y salgan a las calles para que «ellos ya no maten a 43 como el año pasado en Cali, sino que ahora maten a 430 o 4 mil 300 o 43 mil».
Y es que, dijo, desde hace más de 30 años se ha creído que en Colombia solo algunos tienen derecho de gozar de lo mejor del país y muchos otros tienen la obligación de se inquilinos de tercera categoría.
«No más, basta, los muchachos y muchachas de Colombia tienen todo el derecho a protestar, a enfrentarse con dignidad ante este régimen infame».
Aseguró que a tres días de las elecciones presidenciales, el régimen quiere justificar un golpe de estado a través de un fraude «monumental» en los comicios.
«Que el ahogo de mi voz sea la fuerza de mi coraje. Que mi voz le transmita a esta muchachada la fuerza del coraje que hoy como nunca necesitan los hombres y mujeres jóvenes del país, porque Colombia está harta de hombres violentos. Necesitamos hombres y mujeres valientes… y la valentía significa honrar la dignidad de existir y de ser capaz de plantarle cara al poder. La valentía significa tener decoro con la propia vida y eso es lo que esta muchachada del siglo XXI nos ha mostrado desde el año pasado».
Además, Tejada llamó a los jóvenes que salieron el año pasado a protestar y que trabajan por reconstruir sus comunidades a que vuelvan a hacerlo, pero de manera pacífica.
aquello que se ha negado literalmente el estado a través de su régimen en el poder de ofrecerle a las comunidades.
Por otra parte, acusó a Iván Duque, actual mandatario de Colombia, de ser «un gobernante cobarde, malicioso, infame», que ha pretendido que el país le pertenece a él y a sus «amigotes del poder».
«Llegó la hora de que Colombia tengo un cambio y ese cambio duélale a quien le duela lo da Pedro y Francia. Llegó la hora, como lo dice Francia Márquez, de que la dignidad se vuelva costumbre en Colombia».
