History in the

streets

ELIANA SUÁREZ SUÁREZ 11°1

TOPIC

The avalanche unleashed by the tax reform in Colombia.

MAIN IDEA

before the
A social outburst that had been coming for many months, since
to the tax reform.
pandemic, but that had greater impact and repercussion due
common misfortune.
Colombia needed to unite, and nothing unites as much as a
ues: an old, unjust
A misfortune that has consisted of several simultaneous plag
t central
and corrupt system, a poorly managed pandemic and an inep
government capable of clumsy and malign initiatives.
all the
But the millions of Colombian citizens never gave up, despite
ined cheerful and
inconveniences in the strikes, marches and protests, they rema
of the tax reform and
courageous, having the triumph not only of the withdrawal
and more
Minister Carrasquilla, but also of having achieved to be more
protagonists of our history.

FIRST

IDEA

Duque could have spared the country

SECOND

the current spate of deaths and the IDEA

economic disasters of the strike, by No country loses honor fo

n r
withdrawing in time, as proposed eve renegotiating a debt, but ou
r
by his allies, an inconvenient, governments and our econ
omists first
inopportune, senseless, insensitive and commit the debt and man
age the
therefore criminal tax reform. But resources as they please,
but then they
Minister Carrasquilla convinced the do not pay for it with the fru
its of their
President that the costs of the crisis foresight but with the mon
ey they take
should be paid by the middle class from the pockets of those
who work
itself. and pay taxes. They do no
t invest in
productivity, they do not re
design the
economy, they do not expa
nd taxation
capacity, they spend the de
bt at their
whim and pay with the blo
THIRD od of the
poor, albeit punctually.
IDEA

The government has made the wo

rst
mistake: it has betrayed with its ref
orm
the middle class that elected it. An
d
that middle class thus betrayed ca CARTOON
nnot
ignore that in these days the poor
people fought for it. !!THE GOVERNMENT IS

OPPRESSING BY USING FORCE WHILE,

The attempt to silence the popular THE PEOPLE DEFEND THEMSELVES

clamor with military arbitrariness

has
WITH THE ONLY THING THEY HAVE,

already been tried in the continen EDUCATION!!

t and
the final result was the total discre
dit
of the military. So it will be in Colom
bia
if they try it.

LINK

COLUMN

Ospina, W. (08 de mayo de 2021). El

espectador. Obtenido de
https://www.elespectador.com/opini
on/columnistas/william-ospina/la-
historia-en-las-calles-column/