The music student Álvaro Herrera was illegally captured while participating in the ‘Symphonic Cacerolazo‘ during the strike in Cali.
The young man was detained by armed civilians and was assaulted in a CCommand of Immediate Attention (CAI) of Ciudad Jardín.
Journalist Wilson Morales also had to leave the city due to threats when he was singled out as a leftist or journalist. first line.
(Read in context: Music and state oblivion: the story of Álvaro, the young man beaten in Cali)
Álvaro Herrera, who specializes in playing the horn, was in the public act of the ‘Cacerolazo Sinfónico’ when civilians arrived and took him to the Police CAI on May 28, 2021.
When he was in those police facilities, the young man was forced to say that he was a hooligan. In June there was an act of reconciliation between the musician and the police.
The threats did not stop and in December there was an assassination attempt, of which the circumstances are reserved.
The exile was made known by Herrera, in virtual transmission, in the meeting ‘What did the national strike leave us in Cali? Young people dream of a different city’, which was held on Wednesday, February 2 by Colombia+20 and the German Embassy.
The Orange Movement lamented the exile of the musician and assured that this was due to those who, without any proof, were in charge of pointing out people who participated in the strike as vandals.
The assassination of Hernán Naranjo, peasant from Arauca. The assassination of Julio César Bravo, Councilor of Nariño, the exile of Álvaro Herrera, a young musician from Cali, only proves that the war continues to be allowed and the Gob e @IvanDuque Through their policy of death, they are accomplices!
– Aida Quilcue (@aida_quilcue) February 3, 2022
The emeritus professor of the National University and Nobel Peace Prize 2016, Gonzalo Sánchez, who was director of the National Center for Historical Memorywarned that “being young, putting music to the protest, and being tortured as a supposed “vandal” in police facilities, becomes a deadly signal. The State is responsible for his life and the costs of exile.”
Councilor Ana Erazo wrote: “Yesterday we spoke in a conversation about impunity and the violation of human rights in the framework of the strike and today we woke up with this news. Álvaro Herrera, the musician detained and tortured in Cali, leaves the country due to lack of guarantees for his life”.
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