At a time when Colombia is preparing to obtain a statute of protection praised by the international community, Bogotá’s Alcaldesa, Claudia López, has agitated more than xenophobia against Venezuelan migrants in an act that violates the law of its political allies. His statements were made in cents, at different times, during the period leading up to the last year, to intensify the past week since the assassination of a police officer in one of the more zones of the Colombian capital in the middle of a series of balacers that have a security deterrent.
Patrolman Edwin Caro was assigned to a rescue facility on the road to Wednesday morning in the north of Bogotá, when he was taken to another uniformed detainee for a request to suspects who were armed with revolvers. One of them sacrificed his army and abridged against the patrolman. Ambos eran venezolanos, como ha enfatizado desde entonces la alcaldesa. “It is not the first time, unfortunately (…) that we are committing very violent acts of Venezuelan migrants. Primero asesinan y luego roban. We do not guarantee guarantees for Colombians. The politicians of the Gobierno nationally respect the respect of the Colombians as well as the necessary guarantees “, said López in one of the many statements of the same court that he agitated the public debate. “Venezuelans everywhere have the offer, which guarantees ten Colombians,” he said.
These words exacerbate the controversy. From many different sectors, it is advertised that xenophobia is playing a key role in a country that has lost ground and will lead to an elogic policy of support and migratory flexibility that sometimes leads to enormous social pressure. También, whose critics are just producers when the Governor of Ivan Duque proposes to regularize about one million undocumented Venezuelans – of the more than 1.7 million that are located in Colombia – means a temporary status of protection with a vignette of 10 years ago. The polls suggest that it is not a popular medium, and the thirds of the Colombians are in disarray. Although López’s counterpoints with Duque are his co-workers, especially with respect to the management of the sanitary crisis, in this occasion there are more allied strikes that the Alcanza of the Progressive Party’s party crosses a red line.
“This is how he resulted in Claudia’s good leadership in Bogotá’s leadership in one of the most difficult periods, he made his declarations with respect to the Venezuelan migrants. We have no motive, no motive, caer in expressions that feed xenophobia “, signaled the presidential candidate Sergio Fajardo about who had his electoral formula in the campaign of 2018.” Sign the nationality of someone who committed a crime is a serious error, combat insecurity and can bring about xenophobia, ”said Juanita Goebertus, co-leader of several green legislators who distance themselves. According to the councilors of the capital, they will send a card for pedaling a retraction that will never take place. Other figures from the center, with whom the Green Alliance intends to forge a coalition with the presidents of 2022, will also show criticism. Excommunicator Juan Manuel Galán, including the question of xenophobia and the politics of Alcaldia de Bogotá and Claudia López, faces the security crisis.
“We are much more concerned than an authority on the importation of Bogotá’s alkalis, the second most important electoral cargo of the country, can open the gates to xenophobic manifestations much more amplified, and with possible consequences more dangerous”, advises Tx the organization Venezuelan Colombo Dialog. More than 50 million Venezuelans live in hyperactive inflation, insuring food and medicine. Colombia is by far the main destination of its diaspora, and the city that supports the most migrants is its capital, with cases 340,000.
Many of his critics record in López that various studies show that Venezuelans in Colombia are victims of crime, more than perpetrators. From the administration, without embarrassment, it is said that the figures are the reason. Given the perception of an increase in insecurity – which the authorities dismiented -, in addition, the costume would refer selectively to the nationality of the authors of certain deeds. A list of its statements, discriminatory publications in speeches and media of creation 576% agree with the Barometer of Xenophobia, a platform that pursues expressions about the migrant population. También tuvieron has the effect of boosting in 1.152% the publications on integration.
The vast majority of Venezuelans form part of the more vulnerable French. Alcaldesa, which defines itself as a diverse and high-ranking female, has launched the first declarations that could be considered discriminatory last April, claiming with the insistence that the national authorities should stop the migrants who live there. “We pay the money, we pay the debt, we pay the garden, we pay the school, we employ them. That pen that is the only one that we can cover, is the tree ”, dijo. After starting the relationship with the migratory flows. “There are some immigrants who are involved in the crime that we are facing in life,” he said in October.
López was forced to retire as a scoundrel, placed in the center of the political spectrum and close to polarization. Paradoxically, since Alcaldia has captured the efforts to deactivate the social bomb that has provoked the pandemic to guarantee transfers of resources to the most vulnerable, for migrants have appeared in a recurrent manner as a point of friction in their discourse. Alcaldesa commences the sanitary crisis as the best leader evaluated in the country, but the erosion of its popularity has been evident in the last months. According to Invamer-Gallup’s medicine, which accounts for 89% of last April’s approval, this figure is 52% lower, with 43% disapproval.
“López has decided to use the same recourse of the populists all over the world when he comes across uncontrollable figures of insecurity: blame migrants, generalize, make manipulative declarations of reality and point out the violence against the Venezuelans that we see the periodical The Spectator and its main article. “If there is a discriminatory discourse that works, then many Colombians have allowed the discretion of the foreigners to have a majority position, but should not be a cruel act and contradict all the inclusion promises that the District has”.
Although the coyuntural amaine torment, the consequences will last. “Declarations as such have an ambient atmosphere and an institutional climate for the implementation of the statute of the local, and is preoccupied,” said María Clara Robayo, researcher at the Venezuelan Observatory of the University of Rosario. These messages end up legitimizing narratives in which the image of migrants is constructed from negative stereotypes. “The xenophobia term is increasing social tension, which is what we are talking about,” he concluded.
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