The journalist José Alberto Tejada Echeverricalled on the "young people" of Colombia not to fall into provocations before "the boot of the State", which could charge them for alleged crimes in various demonstrations taking place in the country, in view of the second round of the presidential elections to be held this Sunday, June 19, where Gustavo Petro and Rodolfo Hernandez will compete for the office.
"Once again I say and I have said and I will continue to say to the boys and girls of the social outburst: Do not let yourselves be provoked, do not let yourselves be provoked! Hold on boys and girls! The dignity of your peaceful resistance is deeper, it is greater, it is older than the vulgarity and the infamy of the regime in power," stressed the businessman and politician in a video posted this Wednesday afternoon on its Facebook page.
The video, which so far has more than 131 thousand reproductions, highlights that young people, who make the class struggle in the country have been "living in a borrowed country" for more than 20 years and are tired of "being third class tenants in their own country of birth".
They, he said, are only asking "that we recognize their right to have hope for their future".
In this sense, he asked the "muchachada" to hold on, to take care of the country, not to let themselves be led to scenarios of violence and chaos.
"Raise the flag of your dignity as you raised it on April 28 last year, raise the flag of your peaceful resistance, raise the flag of the memory of your dead, of the pain of your mutilated, of the pain of your disappeared, of the pain of your wounded, of the pain of your captured, but do not let yourselves be provoked!", he pointed out.
Cucho Tejada", as he is known in Colombia, stressed that "the regime" is looking for young people to fight back, try to arm themselves and take to the streets so that "they no longer kill 43 like last year in Cali, but now they kill 430 or 4,300 or 43,000".
He said that for more than 30 years it has been believed that in Colombia only some have the right to enjoy the best of the country and many others have the obligation to be third-class tenants.
"No more, enough, the boys and girls of Colombia have every right to protest, to stand up with dignity against this infamous regime".
He assured that three days before the presidential elections, the regime wants to justify a coup d'état through a "monumental" fraud in the elections.
"May the drowning of my voice be the strength of my courage. May my voice transmit to this young people the strength of courage that today, as never before, the young men and women of the country need, because Colombia is fed up with violent men. We need courageous men and women? and courage means honoring the dignity of existing and being able to stand up to power. Courage means to have decorum with one's own life and that is what this XXI century youth has shown us since last year".
In addition, Tejada called on the young people who went out last year to protest and work to rebuild their communities to do so again, but in a peaceful manner.
that which the state has literally denied itself through its regime in power to offer to the communities.
On the other hand, he accused Iván Duque, current president of Colombia, of being "a cowardly, malicious, infamous ruler", who has pretended that the country belongs to him and his "cronies in power".
"The time has come for Colombia to have a change and that change, no matter who it hurts, is given by Pedro and Francia. The time has come, as Francia Márquez says, for dignity to become a custom in Colombia".
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