I apologize to those who feel offended, for referring to the same subject again, but I cannot ignore such great shame and indignation with Jineth Bedoya.
“To you Jineth, brave woman” able to describe in detail the vexation, the humiliation, the pain of such an unhappy and impotent reality. To shout louder every day than women, we deserve respect, dignity and protection in a country governed by males hungry for power who boast of selling internationally a democratic country and opportunities where our reality is equal to or worse than that of South Africa.
Sexual, intra-family violence, added to the exclusion of women in a country where more than 50.83% we are female, where it is worse if we are indigenous, Afro-descendants, peasants or single mothers.
Credibility is given to miserable, delinquent and sick men who daily harass, intimidate, outrage our girls, women, mothers, wives, sisters, friends; the worst thing is that we have no one to turn to; and even more, that defending ourselves is typified as madmen taking justice into their own hands. What justice does not exist in this country, it is a circus of corruption where whoever has the most money has the power to make decisions. For the first time in my life today I feel ashamed to say that I was born in Colombia.
I cried listening to your interview after the slap in the face that our justice system gave you, I cry as I write these words because I felt your pain as if it were mine, for the first time I can say the clichéd phrase, «I’m so sorry» because it’s getting out of hand. my heart is torn, I feel it as if it had happened to me, because for a few years I have been following your story and I feel very close to you despite the fact that we have never seen each other, much less greeted each other, I have not even attended any of your talks. But from the bottom of my soul I feel your pain as if it were my own, I am with you from the bottom of my heart, even though something so painful has never happened to me. I have pain as a woman, as a daughter, as a mother, as a wife, as an aunt, as a friend, although like most women in our streets I suffer harassment, violence and worst of all, indifference in moments of anguish and danger. . Because like you, when we ask for help or confront our detractors, they look at us as if we are crazy and have no right to demand respect.
From here, my only opportunity to speak out, I support you in your fight, in our fight, we do not want more cases like yours, like the one of Rosa Cely, Natalia Ponce, nor Sandra, Marías, Patricias, Ana, Camila; let no other woman suffer at the hands of a male without punishment.
Thank you Jineth for the fight you carry for anonymous women like me…. in this country of m#$%&@.