July 15, 2022, 9:08 PM
July 15, 2022, 9:08 PM
“What I tell my mom: to be a psychologist; but what I really want… like this, like this, I’m going to tell you honestly, I want to be a drug dealer”, replied with a laugh, a 12-year-old girl from El Alto, a first-year high school student, who was interviewed by María Galindo within what the activist calls a radio documentary and broadcasts through her social networks. The video with the fragment in question went viral.
Galindo asked her to say again what she wanted to be, and the girl he said, again between laughs: “narco”.
The activist reflected on the response she received: “That is the culture we are creating”; and he talked to the rest of the boys who were with them; she told them it was not funny, but serious. She warned them that drug trafficking, while he could give them easy money, he would charge them with their lives.
“How much are you worth?”, he asked the children and adolescents who were there, some doubtful answered that they did not know, while others answered: “A lot!”. What was used by the woman to tell them: “Not even with all the drug money can life be paid for”.
In the video, Galindo shows the reality of one of the El Alto neighborhoods, and the way in which its people have organized themselves to meet the needs that the different levels of government do not cover. He stressed that the organizations are not only led by adults, but also by young people from 12 to 20 years old.
