February 15, 2021
Colombia’s government is destroying the future of the country’s children, teenagers and young adults as it is bungling its economic reactivation plans.
While many people somehow recovered employment after the biggest economic crash in history last year, young adults fell behind, particularly in the urban areas.
Unemployment among people between 18 and 24 went from 17.7% in 2019 to 24.2% last year, according to the DANE, which said general unemployment had gone from 10.5% to 15.9%.
Job opportunities for young women were worse than any other group; their unemployment rate went from 23% in 2019 to was 31.7% last year.
The government of President Ivan Duque, who falsified his diploma, appears to have no plan to curb youth unemployment or provide education to teenagers and children.