3:14 “A recovering addict who used community work to kick his habit.” Let that sink in for a bit. This man deserves his own story.

"If the virus doesn't kill us. We will die of hunger" Real Talk ..😔😔😔😔

@indigo57

4 жыл бұрын

Luke 21:11, go to jw.org for hope.

@malimillions

4 жыл бұрын

Finally the problem is summarized in one sentence!

@juanalmos1959

4 жыл бұрын

the babies, children and the Elderly...breaks my heart

As a colombian im grateful for having a plate of food every day, hurts to see that people living right next to me dont have the same luxury, but there is always a way to help people and i find the way to give even the things that i dont have to them

@indigo57

4 жыл бұрын

Luke 21:11

@Pinkugirl

4 жыл бұрын

Are you in Columbia now?

@palomabrava461

4 жыл бұрын

Lindas palabras 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@gamlielzaque604

4 жыл бұрын

@@Pinkugirl always lived here always will

@Pinkugirl

4 жыл бұрын

Gamliel Zaque beautiful. Are you in a city or countryside? You guys have such a beautiful people, your cuisine is outstanding also. I hope to one day visit on vacation. I have always wanted to see Columbia in person. Not just what tv and movies say. I really like yalls footballers as well. Especially yalls golden generation with Rene Higuita. What do people in Columbia that you know think of the U.S.?

Meanwhile karen at her local supermarket doesn't want to wear a mask

This made me tear up. We all get wrapped up in our own struggles that we forget there are other people just trying to put food on their plate to survive.

This pandemic has been particularly hard on developing and under developed countries

@bob-manuel

4 жыл бұрын

what do you think is the difference between developing and under developing? please don't respond with insults.

@jeant6502

3 жыл бұрын

@@bob-manuel from my understanding, Developing countries will likely to becoming developed in the near future (10-20 years). countries like: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, etc. would be those. since most of developing countries - their economy are boosting despite still experiencing some corruption, poverty, lack of funds in those countries. while Under developed countries not so much. the economy in there are barely improving. the corruption and poverty are increasing (compare to most developing countries) lack of public health care, schools, foreign investors, public transportations, etc.

I been living in bogota for years now and I can say it is a tough situation despite all the corruption in the government I think as a country we have held together pretty strong almost 4 months of quarantine people are starting to get desperate yet we hold on ...Colombia has bee through worse we will survive and thrive

@adambriceland6588

4 жыл бұрын

colombia is awesome!

@bbmblais

3 жыл бұрын

Ummm sounds like youve never thrived actually so i dunno why youd assume you will after this....

It's like this in MANY parts of the world...even parts of YOUR country.

@ieatass4226

4 жыл бұрын

No one is starving in America.

@bletz421

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't matter were u live theres always someone going hungry

@shooter16101

4 жыл бұрын

@@ieatass4226 Plenty of people are starving in america

@Sedonapass

4 жыл бұрын

nope not happening here.

@supernoodles908

4 жыл бұрын

@@ieatass4226 yeah, poverty and food banks aren't a thing in America....

Very compassionate mayor! The world needs more like him!

I wish Vice found a way for us to get involved in helping some of those people, a fund raiser or something?

@jasmina.8473

4 жыл бұрын

Who should give money? The pandemic affects the whole planet. We are all scared and financially burdened.

@anishmathias6298

4 жыл бұрын

@@jasmina.8473 whoever wants to give can give.... It's their choice.

@anna0bermeyer49

4 жыл бұрын

@@jasmina.8473 Those who are able to and want to give.

@devilswin09

4 жыл бұрын

Ask Pelosi if she can give. She has enough wealth to buy Columbia in cash.

@anishmathias6298

4 жыл бұрын

@@devilswin09 if she wants she will.... We don't need to ask someone to forcibly pay

The world, needs more people in government like this man he's got such a big heart.🏆

@freix11

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe he's only doing it for the cameras. Who knows.

Wow - whilst Colombia has some of the most pitiful leaders, there are some absolute gems. This fine man and ex-mayor of Medellín, Federico Gutierrez!

@estbeta

4 жыл бұрын

Precariously Manic you know what I think is the worst part, that many politicians are capitalizing their careers with the pandemic. They just want to have the least victims and have the best looking numbers but really don’t care about the needs of the people

@Kodakcompactdisc

4 жыл бұрын

esteban betancourt politicians are parasites 🦠

It sucks that anyone should struggle like this.

@AfricaGeo

4 жыл бұрын

What are you doing about it ?

@ungabunga3183

4 жыл бұрын

@the jamesreid What?

@Felix0587

4 жыл бұрын

@@ungabunga3183 ignore him. He must have not taken his meds.

@Angelynkd4

4 жыл бұрын

@the jamesreid You do realize we already have large group's of people going hungry in the US that trump does nothing about? I myself started a community garden since the beginning of COVID to try and bring fresh food to my community. The rich will never care for anyone else and Trump hasnt seen a days work which is probably why he has such a flimsy grip on reality.

@Angelynkd4

4 жыл бұрын

@the jamesreid www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/facts Consider educating yourself and not relying on others to do it for you, its a good life skill.

Meanwhile in the USA, the Starbucks closes down and people lose their minds. Thank you ever you want, that you were born in the states or other first world country. Covid might be disrupting your lifestyle but your fed and watered. Get off your phone and appreciate the life you have.

@aus-li

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, I live in the US and I don't have a job...so I eat very little. It's been like this before the pandemic, since I graduated from college and been applying for jobs, only to be hit with the pandemic. Not having enough food to eat is something I got used to long ago. Or, eating the same food such as pasta and rice doesn't bother me. You become completely numb to whatever you put into your body.

@aus-li

4 жыл бұрын

@@anahata3478 Exactly. I have no healthcare and can't even get a mediocre job to buy essentials or save money. It's pretty bad, but at least I have a place to stay until I do get a job.

@Lucas_Antar

4 жыл бұрын

Adam Davidson You’re my vote for the next Presidente de Tropico

@geekedmaxx

4 жыл бұрын

To be honest the United States has it worst it's expensive asf to live in on housing that lady with all those kids would never survive in the United States and have a home im just being honest 🤷 all her kids will be put in foster care because there's nowhere she would be able to live that's affordable with all those kids

VICE is stepping up their game with REAL and MEANINGFUL news reporting. Glad to see you back in the real world, I hope you stay awhile this time. Please give huge kudos to your writers, reporters, and producers for delivering to us an honest and unbiased story.

Sad times. 😔

@indigo57

4 жыл бұрын

Luke 21:11 Last days

It’s so crazy I remember when I visited the house of a girlfriend there who had a whole ass home-theater in her house. The parallels between rich and poor will never cease to amaze me.

I wish we had a President like this man here in the United States.

@PabloEscobar-cs9lu

4 жыл бұрын

Don’t worry, we will have 4 more years of Trump!! Everything will be fine (:

This is so sad to see

just go live in the rural third world for a bit and you'd never waste any food.

This so sad, but how do these families have so many children they can't support?!?

@ShidaiTaino

4 жыл бұрын

Ingvar1996 children can get jobs and they might be a way out of poverty

@versatileintrovert

4 жыл бұрын

It is like that also here in Venezuela. Contraceptives are pretty expensive, and at least here the government encourages poor women to have kids and get a wage because of that. More forced votes to them and women can barely get by without a job or education (or course, many of these kids turn to the streets and to thievery, perpetuating the cycle but that's another matter)

@caracol121000

4 жыл бұрын

Poverty and lack of education about contraceptives along with integrated traditional family roles/religion enable communities to have families with multiple kids, happens in developing countries and developed as well.

One of the rare occasions that a leader figure seems genuinely invested in helping his people... hope things get better for them all.

VICE...do you have any links for donations or support? These stories are heartbreaking, give us a way to help. A path to assistance in the stories you produce will help viewers feel less helpless. Help us, help them. Your reporting is grade A lets use your platform to support the stories you cover.

@juanalmos1959

4 жыл бұрын

exactly...I have very little funds but im willing to donate..poor souls, god bless these people

@geekedmaxx

4 жыл бұрын

Naw the United States can't even take care of our own why care about Columbia for they not giving us any jobs

@caracol121000

4 жыл бұрын

S T Nobody is asking about you donating or is forcing you to donate. News flash, the United States is the way it is because it’s own corrupt ways has led it to here. Colombia along with many other countries in Latin America now suffer under governments that cannot support their communities because of imperialism from the United States and therefore rooted a culture of corruption with unstable governments for their own gains. Literally the least ya’ll could do is donate to countries the US fucked over thru centuries for their own capitalistic gain. YOU don’t need to donate, and surprisingly, people in other countries such as Colombia have to worry about more than not having a job! Like the video explained, they also have to worry if starvation will get to them first or corona :)

@BREAKFRESHNYC

3 жыл бұрын

SERIOUSLY!!! Like how do you not think of this yourself? They sure didn't forget to post 10 links to Vice related bullshit at the end of the video.... geez thanks Vice.

Those families who didn't get the provisions will now continue to starve, such a sad way to view the situation.

To think this mayor is doing so much with the limited resources it has

God bless these people. Praying for the hungry while eating brings gratitude, and love, to the world.

I hope this pandemic is a wake up call to how people think of spending/saving money, how many children they will have, and other things.

God bless the people donating food and coordinating the donations

This is heartbreaking. Oh God...have mercy....

makes me sad seeing this man..

I love Colombia so much. This breaks my heart.

Hey why isin't there a fund in the mayor's name I would send money he feeds his people. OMMMMMM

Why are there mothers with 7 kids in a city, state and country that they cannot afford?

@mariacamilaakl4082

4 жыл бұрын

1. Unfortunately most people in Colombia are uneducated (they barely know how to read and write) and are very religious. So they don’t have any sexual education and women are not allowed to abort. 2.condoms or any form of contraception are super expensive for someone that poor (it is more expensive to have kids but you have to remember they live day to day) 3. Most of the people that live in these zones invaded the land because they were displaced by the drug cartels. That why they don’t have water or electricity they are there illegally so the government cannot provide those services by law. In other words they come from the country side where having a lot of kids is profitable (free labor) and they were kicked out and forced into the expensive but save city.

Not only Colombia and africa

Video is informative about a horrible situation but no link for donations. Thankful for channels like this, don’t see this one any other news channels.

That's quite weird, why starvation worst than covid, well, it's way more painful and longer and feeding one million people

*Seven kids...* 🙄🙄🙄🙄

How can I fly out there and help? I would love to be there and help distribute these goods plus help figure a way to get them some goods

Is there way to donate to these people?

Imagine if we had more leaders like this in the US.

@jacoboalvarez468

4 жыл бұрын

the diference its that in colombia most of politicians steal the government money

@projectocamero7502

4 жыл бұрын

Bro what are y'all talking about. We have the leaders in the cities. Alsmot every city has a food bank. From my personal experience here in Florida schools have sent out food for kids at home, a lot of people are receiving help from the government. It could always be better. But there is nothing to imagine. It's here.

Who did the translations? Lmaooo

This is total misery, these poor people are struggling just to stay alive. SO SAD!!! That mayor deserves the Nobel peace prize!!! This is inhuman!!! Colombians are suffering:(((

thanks cn

Wow.. how 😢

I wish I could help. This breaks me to pieces. I’m severely ill and I only can eat 5 foods. And yet, there are people that can eat and don’t have anything. Vida HP

dios bendiga a los colombianos

As much as we love seeing people helping each other in other's time of need, and it's a story that always needs repeating, so is the fact that resources to give people handouts will not reach everyone and that the quarantine/lockdown should not be a clutch solution for various national governments to fall back upon. There's just got to be another way. #Please

Damn poor people.

E tá errado?!

How much food is there?? To go around.

Horrible... Very sad. I hope and pray that this virus will subside. Hunger should not be a thing in this day in age.

Where’s Kali Uchis @ talking about this

Reminds me of the soviet people in WW2, who had to be in the heart of the battle for Stalingrad. If the war didn't kill them, it was either the cold or starvation that would.

problem is even here in the US how are people also suppose to pay their rent with zero income?

This is the plan, total dependence on the government. Ask the government for permission to work or to shop. They will dominate us if we comply.

@lunatikao2200

4 жыл бұрын

😭😭😭 wtf are we supposed to do? Im getting desperate

@aaronspillman1140

4 жыл бұрын

@@lunatikao2200 normally this option wouldn't even be on the table, but these are unusual times. You need to get a weapon and some people together and REMOVE the politicians that are forcing this on the people. It's coming in America. People are tired of being lied to.

I see a lot of comments of people who are interested in donating. The city has a donation website bogotasolidariaencasa.gov.co It’s in Spanish but you can always translate the website! BTW part of soacha belongs to Bogota so if you donate to Bogota you can help Soacha and other neighborhoods that are in need.

Actually most of the people are more worried about starvation than corona

can confirm

I live in a leaking house of 20 people, only kids eat in the morning before school and adults eat one meal at dinner which is generally cup of tea with a quarter loaf or dhal. I probably still live better than 50% of earth's population. My country is in financial ruin, this covid year has destroyed my hopes for a better 2021. It will only get harder for jobless people and their families and to think alot of farmers are just letting edible goods rot then donate them to charity. Sad state we are in.

These are the kind of leaders I like to see. Hopefully its not just a publicity stunt.

All poor people have the same pattern. A woman with more kids than she can feed, the father is never around or helps support. I don't feel sorry for them because they knew what they were or are doing, I feel sorry for the children because they certainly didn't choose to come into the world. We have limits placed in our lives in the many forms. We are told how old we need to be to drink or smoke, how fast we can drive on the highways, we are told where we can or not turn whil driving, we have credit cards with spending limits, in general we have limits with the intention of creating a better or safer place for the whole community, except having children. No one puts limits on how many children a poor woman or man can procreate, then idiots blame the "government" or some other entity for they being poor.

@user-xy5di3jh5c

4 жыл бұрын

Your ignorant AF. Easy to just state your opinion rather than just educating urself ion even gotta see i already KNOW ur a YT. Have u heard or capitalism and imperialism and how it affects these countries. Your statement ties into white supremacy

@mariacamilaakl4082

4 жыл бұрын

I know it’s not always easy to understand and it can be frustrating... it is true that poverty has a LOT of patterns. I am from Colombia and these are the reasons I think people have so many children when they are poor: 1. Unfortunately most people in Colombia are uneducated (they barely know how to read and write) and are very religious. So they don’t have any sexual education and women are not allowed to abort. 2.condoms or any form of contraception are super expensive for someone that poor (it is more expensive to have kids but you have to remember they live day to day) 3. Most of the people that live in these zones invaded the land because they were displaced by the drug cartels. That why they don’t have water or electricity they are there illegally so the government cannot provide those services by law. In other words they come from the country side where having a lot of kids is profitable (free labor) and they were kicked out and forced into the expensive but save city. Moral of the story... stop the consumption of illegal drugs that fuel conflict in poor countries.

Okayy

3:41 Whats the temperature in that area? Looks cold by their clothing.

@amyparker9816

3 жыл бұрын

Soacha is close to Bogotá, so rather high up in the Andes. That's why it's cold.

It's tragic to see how many people are hungry. When will human beings acknowledge that overpopulation is a serious crisis?

Go ask Chile

No sh**, is this really a surprise to people, smh.

The same is happening in some parts of Chile, for all of you to know. I bet in all south america is happening.

hands on approach, the government, could do better.

Please start growing and canning your own food!

How comes everyone in the vid was overweight...?

FREE SPEECH IN PHILIPPINES IS BEING CANCELLED. PLEASE HELP TALK ABOUT THIS.

@ronnelacido1711

4 жыл бұрын

nobody cares. go bring your miseries elsewhere.

Funny how VICE disabled comments on the previous video about transgender

@misterm7605

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣😭😭😭

Where’s the UN when you need them?

Mexico: A continuing sad story. Way too sad.

@pattymayocakes

4 жыл бұрын

...it literally says COLOMBIA in the title

The woman with 7 kids doesn't need food; she needs a fucking Norplant!!! Why is it that there are no "journalists" that ever challenge people who have children they know they can't afford to have? I don't have children in part because I can't afford them, but even more so because I love my children too much to bring them into this existence.

Good Mayor who lives up to his purpose in office... 👊🏿👍🏿

This pandemic is extremely anti-poor.

Good to see there is some good political people left in the world

Birth control will help that country.

@GREENLALI

4 жыл бұрын

👍

@theactivecoconut6077

4 жыл бұрын

Colombia's birth rate isn't even that high

@arthurheidt6373

4 жыл бұрын

no, it won't their problem is bad organisation they live on a massive continent and they don't even have reached peak food, not even the one of vertical farming.

@treborironwolfe978

4 жыл бұрын

Evolution tends to tweak itself to ensure survival of the DNA; sometimes this results in higher birth rates. Humans are animals, and all animals either adapt to changes in their environment or they die. Being human presents us with far more challenges than most other animals, in that we have the ability to plan ahead, organize, self-reflect, and sympathize with others. These abilities can be utilized or ignored; it is an individual decision, and neither choice can be objectively judged as "good" or "bad".. only the results.

@gamlielzaque604

4 жыл бұрын

Thats not even the problem

God bless everyone in Jesus name amen

@christopherpolizzi1086

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes I don't know anyone in Columbia but the love of God ties us together when some hurt we supposed to react and help and love and share love to be loved I pray that God will bless Columbia and all its people that God will not have his people go hungry there are some people on this giving comments that can afford to help that's what we are on this Earth to do Lord forgive us of our trespasses I Repent of all my sins I know that Jesus died on the cross I Rose the third day and I believe in him the only true way to get off this planet is through Jesus Christ amen

@spartanrabbit

4 жыл бұрын

I guess this starvation is in jesus name, since he is all mighty but does NOTHING! Religion wont save us, it never has. Good and decent human beings will

@christopherpolizzi1086

4 жыл бұрын

No don't believe like that get you a Bible and read it and I pray God show himself to you in a dream a vision wake you up Jesus Christ is real and alive he answers prayers all the time please brother sister read the Bible see for yourselves don't take my word for it God loves you

@treborironwolfe978

4 жыл бұрын

​@@christopherpolizzi1086 I have chosen Jesus as my personal savior, but IMO there are other great teachers and enlightened souls who have walked on this earth also. I feel as you said here, read the Word for yourself. Many agnostics and atheists who hear Christians repeat this saying over and over and over, I cannot blame them for judging Christians as being nutcases, but I truly believe it does speak to each of us directly and individually. I am a pragmatic nondenominational Christian; I did not sign up with Jesus for fame and glory, I just opened my mind and heart many years ago and He spoke to me. I've never looked back.

@spartanrabbit

4 жыл бұрын

@summer breeze kk im going to hell. Cool ( i guess hot lol) .... Im not intimidated by your spooky bronze age stories. You only love your god cause you are interested in what he can give, and scared of the possibility of eternal hell. Thats a relationship based on interest and not love. Meanwhile wasting your one and only life with REAL people telling them a mysterious invisible man will make them suffer.. If you want to be a good person you dont need to read a book, but help here, in the REAL life to make it better.. Stop trying to scare ignorant people into your religion, you are not helping in their daily suffering any bit. Instead go help some other way.

Meanwhile here in the states, if the pandemic don't kill you the obesity will. 😷 I'm 56 years old and gained 20 lbs, time to hit the gym😶 It's time for the United States to send food there, we waste so much here.

PLEASE TALK ABOUT PHILIPPINES

Hunger exists, yet some stupid people do those "Mukbang" videos and waste all the food.

damn this is sad to see. we should pay more attention to poverty

No comments yet. I'll be back

@dogchanneldoglover5506

4 жыл бұрын

Where from

@DTA-me3kv

4 жыл бұрын

WV.

Food is important for combating the Covid 19 Yes it's sad that we would lose families or ourselves in the pandemic, but we can keep population increase or in balance when we have enough food. Fatality rate is 4%, we'll defeat the virus by increase babies

TALK ABOUT THE ANTI TERROR BILL THAT WILL CANCEL FREEDOM IN PHILIPPINES

Be a shame if they had jobs rn

They need to be handing out birth control with the food

America will look like this if Vice gets their way

@Seapears

4 жыл бұрын

Charitable and community minded?

Amazing mayor. Most mayors care for their city.

I wonder if Pablo Escobar was still around would he support the people during this time

@mariacamilaakl4082

4 жыл бұрын

Pablo only helped these people in order to hide himself. But part of the reason these people are living in such conditions is because all the money is either taken by corruption or invested the war against drugs... the true legacy of pablito

This is not charity... this is politician propaganda ... thats sad .

@gamlielzaque604

4 жыл бұрын

Man u got the bolts inside yo head, in the wrong places man....

@philosoftfurkitusjunkyard2462

4 жыл бұрын

Like they still need the vote from ☠️☠️☠️

@mariacamilaakl4082

4 жыл бұрын

Lo peor de todo es que tienes razón

I’m not going to hate. But why do parents know they have no money, decide to have 7 kids, then too work on themselves first? I understand the need to carry on your bloodline but, if your born poor, wouldn’t you want to change that for your future kids so they feel the same way & grow up with same experiences? I never did understand, you need to have sex, you need to give birth, so after you can feed the first child you will have 6 more than complain about the government then hate god? I’m confused, the world isn’t perfect, many make the decision to bring more hatred into the world. Maybe they think 1 kid won’t survive and another would, but 7 kids in poverty? What are they just pulling the lottery or do they expect the 7 kids to make more money. Same money individually, but more more together 7 x weird. Really weird, you know you don’t need to have kids right? Damn

Seems like a situation that will resolve itself

These people need to be sent to Nancy Pelosi's mansion. Plenty of gourmet ice cream, fancy swiss and belgian chocolates and goodies abound. It just shocks me when I hear liberals say Democrats care about people when people like Pelosi have enough wealth and luxury to feed that whole city 100 times over. You are blind to what you don't want to see!

just let them work at their own will

"this city"?? Um NO. Most latinamerica to be precise

And we see Americans complaining wearing a mask... How sad

Lack of gringos.