Campaign Proposals and the Needs of a Diverse and Unequal Colombia

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In the electoral era, Colombian centralism often imposes the idea that what happens in the public squares of Bogotá, Barranquilla, Medellín, or Cali represents the priorities of the entire country. While presidential campaigns advance between grandiose promises, digital strategies and increasingly inflammatory discourses, in much of the regions affected by the armed conflict and inequality, demands continue to be much more basic as well as urgen…