Achagua, Embera, Ette Naka, Kogui, Naka-Yuwe, Pisamira, Tikuna and Yuruti are some of the 69 indigenous languages found in Colombia that speak 400,000 inhabitants. Currently, 102 communities face the hegemonic model of the West. A model that, over the centuries, has been deenriching peoples, not only of material wealth, but also of culture, which has dominated with submission.

This model, if you can call it that way, indoctrinated us to be a miserable, violent, corrupt, racist, classicist, cruel and inhuman country. Consequences of Spanish colonialism. However, in view of the results of the last elections, this country seems to be awakening from its millenary lethargy. We would like to believe that, as a people, the value of life, respect for land, the importance of culture and the wealth of art are being claimed.

Another thing is the future of this new social cycle. Like many decisive events, this has also taken place in the street, in the neighborhood, in the jungle, in the mountains, with peasants, indigenous people, human rights defenders and young people. The people have commissioned the democratic system, the distorted and obscene system, to channel that enormous power and motivation accumulated in this process. And through the transmission of that responsibility, the population has been emptied. That democracy will bring about the social change of our dreams. Maybe yes, maybe not. But the republican and constitutional nature of the Colombian state, that is, a political system based on the European democratic model, does not guarantee that the majority of citizens are of the first order.

Will France Márquez be our new vice-president able to lead the popular spirit by the maze of democracy, as if he were Ariadna? France knows what it is to be black, to be poor, to live denied and excluded. And he knows that those who are no one, fortunately or unfortunately, support this system. I look at his speech, but above all his influence and coherence. In the end it seems that it will represent us a woman.

We have to rethink the world, our own, maintain our memory; remember Muisca, Tikuna, Achagua, Embera, Nasa Kogui, and other peoples. It's our responsibility to understand what happened to us as a society, what we did or what we stopped doing. And that commitment is ours, not institutional. Because what is a brief four-year mandate to make the necessary profound changes? That this path seems what it gives, we must not forget that to address real change it is essential to revitalize the universe of our goods, our culture, our languages. They are goods that root us on Earth, like the umbilical cord roots us in the maternal uterus.