Speech by Clara Lopez Obregon (Alternative Democratic Pole) in a campaign meeting in Bogota, February 9 2014



Words of presidential candidate of the Alternative Democratic Pole, Clara Lopez Obregon, in the polítivo cantidatas event organized by the Senate, Olga Forero and Lilia Rodriguez, in the Convention Center Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada of Bogotá, February 9, 2014

I must begin by thanking the organizers of this wonderful event to Olga Forero de Silva, Lilia Olarte all fellow artisans Bogotá and outside of Bogotá that have come from everywhere. My mates always this emotional and beautiful event that is represented across the country in the hands of these artisans in his heart in the way weave our dreams this is the national identity in all its biodiversity. The embrace and applaud and wish to go ahead because you are our memory and our future.

I have to greet the teacher our eternal president Carlos Gaviria of the Alternative Democratic Pole. The ethical driver of a society that sometimes seems aimless still receiving in each of his words, his writings and lectures that address towards building a better country thank you for being here and for giving us Gaviria master hand in this political struggle.

My friend of all times whom I expected from his bus at the Mary Mount. Because I came before her school, to go do what we did best pilatunas thousand. Thanks Pilar by the friendship of a lifetime.

I greet my husband by my colleague Carlos Romero struggles never be here today as a candidate or party be alive thank you very much for that fellowship. Women do not know but it is a blessing to have a man who is not macho side, a man who would give up an election won resign so that his wife could take the position that opened the way for me to be mayor of Bogotá's choice I led the way. A hug and a kiss on the forehead as I give it every night.

I greet all the members of the Senate present here. We list indignant and outraged by that I greet Rodolfo Arango Judge of the Constitutional Court, Douglas Douglas Velasquez Velasquez met former deputy minister of mines and one of my classmates at Harvard who will help us to rebuild the mining code.

I want to greet German Fernandez medical white coats fighter health as a right under the law and who do not have goods. And I want to salute my colleague Elizabeth Cortes in the Government Secretariat candidate to Senate and the woman who exemplifies Beatriz Carvallo us all nurses organizer of Colombia fighter of the right to health .And could not be on the list Senate by very small but here's Sergio Fernandez young MANE who is ensuring the program from the Pole to take the presidency change in the model of education, free public higher education quality for all children and youth in Colombia .

This list indignant and outraged the heads who have been selected by their own senators at home and abroad and opinion leaders as the best senator of the Republic Jorge Enrique Robledo chief candidate of the Alternative Democratic Pole.

This list the Senate our lists to the House of representatives throughout the country are a reflection of this wave of indignation that comes down the fields, the roads and streets of Colombia since the MANE started dating when I was in the mayor of Bogota that cry of rebellion that not only occurs in Colombia you have seen on television in North Africa talk about the Arab Spring, young students in France rose to protest for better education and unemployment, in United States. On Wall Street they sat in the parks to claim 1% 99% neglect.

In all fields that wave of discontent it moves as the requests have a common denominator. This model of care fincada selfish society on the model of profit, consumption and superior value to end that takes into disbands among all the inhabitants of this land that unites us in our humanity the principle of solidarity that should govern all humans in their expression.

This economic model that gives substance to this excessive consumption is pouring water everywhere rebellion would not be present if that were giving economic model work, guarantees of rights but is otherwise so different governments have touted this economic model that generates poverty and excessive concentration of wealth we produce, are deepening inequalities, bursting families and damaging the values ​​that bind us as a society.

To us they have told us Dr. Carlos Gaviria know them because he has been stigmatized because they are radical leftists do not believe that a country can succeed when the country is in too few hands. We say radical leftists because we are opposed to the minimum wage is a meager salary is converted into the cult of poverty and not give the bearing basic for sustaining facial much less half the population that even bears the legal minimum.

They complain that they are anchored leftists because we defend the right to health and we believe that EPS should go out of business resources to flow to the attention of citizens and not into the pockets of middlemen. Leftist extremists call us because we stand on the road to defend the rights of peasants fighting hand to hand and shoulder to shoulder with them when they pay the price of egg production but they put prices on inputs gold because governments they are unable to resist the wave of monopolistic power of a few.

I want to tell one thing left-end are not alone have been reading the Gospel Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francisco and want to share with you the statement that the economic model that destroys life and destroy the humanist if we do not control time. The Holy Father says in an aside, "not an economy of exclusion and not to kill the Mudamiento puts a clear limit to ensure the value of human life today we have to say no to an economy of exclusion and inequality. That commends kills. It can not be other than news death of an old man on the street and if it's a ated two points in the bag. That's exclusion can not bear to throw away food when people are starving today everything that's inequality falls within the game of aggressiveness and where the mighty stronger eats the weaker for that great masses of the population are excluded, no horizon, no win, no work considers human beings as a commodity. What about job placement, the closeness of the relationship between employer and worker who treat people like disposable human being as a commodity that can be used to start and then throw discard culture also promotes and it is not simply the phenomenon of exploitation and oppression but something new. With the exclusion is affected relevance to society, society does not live or is under the periphery is out. The excluded are not exploited are leftover debris "

In this context comes our thesis of changing the economic model. Some still defend the spill theories that assume that all economic growth favored by the free market itself does provoke greater social inclusion in the world this view has never been confirmed by the facts expresses a clumsy and confíala in abundance in that They hold economic power and the mechanism sacralised economic system. Meanwhile the excluded still waiting to sustain a lifestyle that excludes other to further develop a globalization of indifference.

And the globalization of indifference is that we are opposing and against which we are revealing all the protesters of Colombia and the world those who sit 57 days in the carretearas in coffee papero strikes and outraged by globalization of indifference. Young people who leave the MANE are outraged globalization of indifference. These artisans who are now outraged by the globalization of indifference what we said from the Alternative Democratic Pole and is part of the program we have been building in forums, meetings, social summits across the country.

Calling on Colombians and Colombian cope with this economic model that kills and we build a new society with a new model a different model, the model of life. The model that you confess and agree with the women of Colombia to rescue their children from the focus of violence and war, we rescue the poor of indifference that kills them and we will reconstruct the social network of relationship with a welfare state that guarantees the right to work, the right to health, the right pension the right to have a place in this country that change of model in which women and men of the Alternative Democratic Pole begins we are by putting on the peace serious foundations of economic and political nature without which no peaceful coexistence.

The state must take as a last main job creation goal of all people capable of working at home all society and all public policy must be based on the work call her employment, entrepreneurship, security and decent income and protection State never had to retire.

To accomplish this role is necessary to design a policy of reindustrialization. The artisans know here there were 20 years ago a policy where industrial policy was not to have industrial policy. Not having agricultural policies for the big fish eats the small fish. 500 owners are the owners of 75% of the shareholding equivalent to about 300 billion pesos.

To achieve our policy of renewal of state that our policy is a policy of intervention in the national productive apparatus function is responsible for generating productive work need to renegotiate the NAFTA free trade deals to protect national industry and work to recover sovereignty over economic policy instruments that allow us to bring our new models of society based on the right to health and the EPS as a commodity.

We will reshape the pension system and we had students six years of trading. This year two years increased pension reengineering of the pension system is needed. Under the current system no one will think pensionar ensure everyone who reaches the retirement age should be a system that supported the state avoid what happens. Trades people and never give full pension that is not enough because they have become a part of the financial sector in a social benefit.

Since I'm in a meeting specifically women I wanted to also say that within our collective construction of the program and within our social model we have built all participatory manner we have had lights Florence Thomas a feisty woman who not only believes but who practices the rights of women. She told me you can not have a policy of women should have a policy for the elderly, for example. The issue of women should be in all aspects and policies of the government program. We mean that where more gender perspective is gender policy is from public safety we talk about security, but does not take into account the vulnerability of women, domestic violence, indifference and lack of need keep in mind that Colombia is doing something dangerous race that is not in the statistics.

A forensic examination of 2009 found that 1319 women were killed violently as women and women in their capacity. That is impressive because there are here a culture of machismo, because the rights of women who think they can destroy life is not respected. To eliminate this problem should not discriminate fight for equal rights, we weave from the youngest to adults permanently. A culture of peace is built with no gender discrimination.

I want to tell you that in our program should be extended to every detail we have a very big concern. Today I share because in the meetings we wonder what can happen if we do not conquer the government at this time? What can happen if we fail at this juncture to change factors lead to a power of reforms such as health benefit of intermediaries and a flag of the minimum wage employers.

I summon you to do a very thorough job very seriously that the president feels very unsure of winning the presidency of the republic and is doing a series of things to come to power again. He does not care that you have heard from the mouth of Olga Forero theme jam them I mean jam straw! pure corruption.

Three billion pesos to those who could pay for 13 years of education to young people handed them over to members of Congress for re-election Juan Manuel Santos and yet nothing climbing in the polls. In the wiretapping scandal I want to tell you that besides chuzar peace negotiators in Havana leaders are spying Polo, the only opposition party because to me that THE SEARCH me that Uribe will change the economic model. We are chuzando to have if we can defeat it here want to assure you that you and we will defeat teaming Juan Manuel Santos and we will defeat Uribism. The country wants change and change is now. I want to invite them to be partners in the way of the will of hope, it will be hard hard work and takes a lot of discipline but we hope. The future belongs to us.

Bogotá, February 9, 2014.
