I’m from Bogotá, though living in NY for the past ten years. I watched this documentary and it shook me to my core. These marginalized people are hated by society, feared by the passerby and forgotten by the government. Colombia has many problems but this kind of poverty contrasts harshly with the richness of the high class of Colombia, or the wealth of druglords. It’s like you’re either born rich or you become rich by illegal means. This is not even about richness, but about having the minimum to lead a dignified life. These people are totally denied that.

The death squads represent the worse of Colombian society. Violence has become the only means to “fix” the problems of society. The only thing that it does is create many more problems like millions of displaced people who come to the cities, poor, without money and hungry. The paramilitary became the gag in a country that still lives with fear and intolerance.