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Fernando Rodriguez Rojas
Oil On Canvas - 39 Inches x 20 Inches
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The theme is based on The peasant population in Colombia, who has been the victim of abduction, violence, murder and forced displacement by subversive and extreme right armed groups. They are normal people, labriegos involved in a war conflict in which they do not participate as protagonists, but this type of violence has generated an exodus of entire families to the big cities in search of safeguarding their lives, abandoning their places of origin and leaving behind their dreams and fields of cultivation, causing chaos in the big cities, as there are more than 3,500,000 displaced persons. In the big cities the opportunities of work for a peasant are scarce, they only know how to cultivate the land to produce their food, no one gives them employment because they create distrust among the quotdians, their clothing and customs are humble. Most of them are made of cardboard and wooden boards on the outskirts of the cities. Some ask for alms and others sell oranges or lemons in traffic lights, young women end up being used for sex work and children or adolescents serve for the study of psychoactive drugs. This has been creating a social problem that is increasing every day. The State is currently trying to return them to their places of origin, but most are afraid to return.
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