Hazard / En Riesgo

HowlRound Theatre Commons: My country of Colombia is one of the most unequal countries in the world. “The Dynamics of Inequalities in Colombia,” a 2019 study by Luis Garay and Jorge Espitia, reveals that a quarter of the farms here own almost three-quarters of the total land of the country, some three thousand people account for 44 percent of gross national income, and the country’s five hundred largest companies account for 81 percent of declared assets. On top of that, despite the peace agreements, we are still in a war that has lasted more than fifty years; there are over nine million people registered in the Victims Unit.