The presidential victory of Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego in a country heavily
controlled (politically and economically) by the USA and by the logic of the IMFcan be seen - especially at the foreign level - as a rebirth for Colombia. ----Every break with the previous neoliberal policy (especially that of Duque) wastherefore welcomed with extreme favor and with the vain hope of improving theliving conditions of those who have always been excluded and made the object ofnumerous violence (institutional and otherwise). ---- But we must consider howthe logic of power reigns in every self-respecting regime, even the most popularand democratic one: keeping the capitalist and military classes in good shape(and in many cases benefiting) means maintaining the political power conquered bythe parties.At the same time, increasing wages and legislating anti-discrimination rulesagainst those people who have been marginalized for centuries (belonging to theLGBTQIA+ community, native populations and/or afro-descendants) are measures withwhich the holders of institutional power create a constituency and, above all,they extinguish any managerial ambitions other than the State-Capital logic.With this first post we will begin to report 360° analyzes on the Colombiansituation, written by comrades* who are and/or are native* of the aforementionedterritory.The LGBTQIA+ issue in Colombia: history and topicality of violence and state andbourgeois normalization (1)Article written by Federica for the Galatea Anarchist Group-The current situationIn Colombia, in recent years, violence (such as threats, assassinations andabuses by the police) against LGBTQIA+ people has steadily increased: justconsider what happened between 2019 and 2020 where there were, respectively, 322and 738 cases.As for the people killed, the bodies found showed signs of torture, and even ifthis fact is recognized by the police, there is no way to stop this type of violence.In 2022 the situation is getting even worse: in the first 6 months alone therewere 354 violences and at least 25 deaths.In many cases the systematicity is evident.In Medellin in recent months there have been 13 cases of murders against gay men;in all cases they were killed after arranging for a sexual encounter.According to Temblores NGO gay men have become targets for military groups due toexisting social prejudice.In the clichés of the collective imagination, gay men are lonely people without afamily; they often have to hide out of fear of being discovered and discriminatedagainst and are not given the care and attention enjoyed by other people inpublic spaces. They are often imagined as rich people willing to give all theirpossessions in exchange for sex; because of these clichés they are seduced andthen attacked and robbed. Once upon a time there were only public places formeetings; nowadays, however, the range of meeting possibilities is expandedthanks to online dating apps.Instead of giving due weight to the facts and terms used, the taxation diminisheseverything by reducing it to a "crime of passion". The bodies are subjected todegrading practices such as throwing condoms on the corpse.For the police and the judiciary this practice serves to focus on the gorydetails of the victim, diverting attention from the murder.The modus operandi can therefore be summarized in three points that are repeatedsystematically:1) the victim is easier to subdue as she trusts the agreed meeting;2) homicide is belittled as a "sexual encounter gone bad" only because the victimbelongs to the LGBT+ community;3) the use of systematic cruel acts on the bodies of the victims through tortureand degradation.Although since 2007 the Fiscalia has recognized that for criminal groups thesexual orientation of the victims can be a reason for domination, there areproblems in the register of these cases not only because some of the victims didnot publicly declare their sexual orientation and/or gender but also because theState itself has difficulties in keeping an adequate register - in which thediscriminating factor of being part of the LGBTQIA+ group has weight.93% of cases remain with impunity. The authorities take too long to intervene,often leading the threatened victims to prefer exile for their own safety. Othertimes we witness a re-victimization when we finally decide to file a complaintor, in the worst case, to commit suicide. A striking example, in the lattercase, was Sergio Urrego, a student from Bogota who loved reading who had made himdevelop critical thinking towards institutions. Openly gay, anarchist and atheist- characteristics destined to create many problems for him in adapting tobourgeois society - he collided with the narrow-mindedness of a principal and aneducational system which, instead of respecting individual differences andfreedoms, tried to brutally repress them .The rector and various psychologists and professors of the Urrego school forcedhim to publicly declare his homosexuality on various occasions - after seeing aphoto in which he was kissing with his boyfriend -, at the same time convincinghis partner's family to report him for harassment sexual.Following the pressure he suffered, he was hospitalized for a nervous breakdownand after a few days he jumped from the top floor of a shopping center, thusending his life.Sergio Urrego's parents, who had always supported him in his choices, immediatelyreleased statements in which they accused the school of discrimination, andimmediately received the support of schoolmates and the ULET (Union libertariaestudiantil y del trabajo, of which Sergio was a part) who organizeddemonstrations in his support.This allowed the case to gain public attention and not be covered up.The Urrego case still draws attention to how the perpetrators are people withinthe institutions, i.e. those who should respect a series of anti-discriminationrules and protect, in theory, those who are subjected to violence.In particular, we refer to the same police officers who, instead of protectingthe victims, become aggressors themselves and thus generating fear and distrustof the police force on the part of the discriminated population(afro-descendants, LGBTQIA+, people who use drugs, people without fixed abode).The police issue has split the LGBTQIA+ movement into two parts.One part has made requests for the reform of the police institution which callsfor an approach and attention to gender and sexuality differences - so that it isnot only feminist but also protects the rights of the LGBTQIA+ population.The other, however, believes that the police cannot be improved and that the bestdefense for discriminated groups is self-defense. For this they founded thecollective TOLOPOSUNGO (todos los police son unas gonorreas) trans and "marika"(gay) movement in favor of the abolition of the police against police violenceand abuse:"We cry / Abolition of the police / It's not an apple / It's the whole tree /Rotten institution / May love be the deadliest weapon / We are diversity / Nomore taxes spent to kill / Human pain / Pain of the body / real pain / Justicenow! Justice now!"https://gruppoanarchicogalatea.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/26/colombia-una-panoramica-tra-violenze-di-stato-e-resistenza-alle-logiche-neoliberiste-1/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About Anarchists
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