Maria Clara Calle, Journalist
Photo by M.C. Calle/2014.
Maria Clara Calle, Colombian journalist at semana.com, shares her story in the below video:
Erleindy Cueros was displaced from her native town in Colombia, Buenaventura, after many of her family members were assassinated. In order to survive, she had to go to Cali, and now she is a leader among displaced persons in the country. What impressed me about her story is how she defines displaced persons. She used to tell me that when displaced persons are on their land, before violence forces them to flee, they are rich, because they eat what they produce and they work hard. But then they arrive in large cities and become beggars. So, what I think is how, in large cities, we are treating displaced persons, and why, so many times, they are looked upon as less-than, and as if the problem was only theirs.
