The Soccer War Blog # 2

Two different countries, but same situation.

In Colombia, throughout the past years there have been many refugees or "desplazados" in the big cities such as Bogota, Medellin, Cali, ect. This has been because of the guerrillas, who have caused tons of violence in the towns of these people. It is unbelievable how one group of people that only cause harm to people are capable of making people leave their homes and towns only to survive and to be alive. This refugees arrive to big cities, without a home and a job, most of them have big families and it is very hard for them to fin a job that can sustain their whole family. For this reason most of them live in the streets in a complete misery. This situation can be compared to the soccer war when Kapuscinski relates the situation in Algeria and what war caused to Algerian villages. "Three hundred thousand feld Tunsia and Morocco. At the same time, throughout the whole war, people from the villages -where repression hit hardest- fled to the cities, where, today, thirty per cent of the Algerian population now lives. Most of them have no jobs, but they do not want to go back to their village, or they can not return because the villages no longer exist." Pg. 102. It is sad to see this situations, and it is surprising how it can happen anywhere around the world. This is what war causes, death, poverty and misery.