Kalimán en Jericó

This third term goes about Human Rights, something that can drive us to talk about the good thing they involve, their importance or necessity but also about their legitimacy, their violation or their default. Well, sorry but now I'm coming with the second part because unfortunately nobody can guarantee the compliance of Human Rights. On one hand there are many countries in the world where Human Rights are respected by their citizens and they are also supported by the law, but on the other hand, still there are a lot of countries where this right have no importance, they seems to no exist and they are constantly violate. As a result, the world is divided into these countries where the citizens are able to have a good life, they have rights, they are protected by the law and they are free to promote themselves and get a full life, and the rest of the countries where people are battered, repressed and have fewer opportunities to get a full life. These problems create inequality in the world. Nobody has chosen where they born, so it's a matter of change which makes it less worthy and more unfair. 

With all this premises I would like to talk about Kalimán en Jericó, wich is a book written by Àngel Burgas. This book related to a mosaic of true stories, which intertwined, show us the portrait of a broken childhood. Àngel Burgas travel to Medellin and he visits the Faro foundation in Jerico where he meet with all the boys that have let behind the life in the streets of the city where they lived the drugs world, mistreatment, and they have meet the gangs world. All this boy have been exiled from the good life but now, in Faro foundation, they have the chance to start looking the future with hope and try to start a new life. 

It's not possible they can forget all experiences they have lived and erase the lived. Àngel Burgas, with this book, move us to another reality well away from our day a day that it's unimaginable. All the stories are told by child of nine to sixteen years old and what they say is not exactly what we would imagine in people of his age: they have been drug addict, they have been battered and have seen how to mistreat others, they have been part of gangs, they have stolen and some of them have killed. All they are childs that have been driven for the bad way. Most of them have lost their families and they are alone and are always in danger. 

It's very difficult to think that things like that are happening and they are very real. We use to weak up every morning and go to the school where we are going to find our friends, and then, when we return home we find our family there. We are always safe and, by now, one of our bigs problemes is to hand over our TDR on time. But there is also the life of people of our same age that have nothing in common with the one we use to. After red this book, if we think about Human Rights, we notice there is something wrong in all that because they don't exist for the people and children who live in Medillín.