Not long ago, John Jaime Sánchez Mosquera, known as El Capi and raised in Comuna 13, where he helped found the group Son Batá, heard Freddy Vega, the Colombian founder of Platzi (an online learning platform), say. ..
“Crime doesn’t pay as much as the code.”
“Do me a favor!” said Capi, a stocky man with a wide smile, whom we have seen open a concert for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, sing with Juanes on the El Salado pitch and hug Marc Anthony in the narrow streets of the Nuevos Conquistadores neighborhood.
Today he remembers that his head boomed.
At that moment, he sensed that in that simple provocative phrase could be the answer to a long-sought desire with sweat and sacrifice: to offer the young people of his commune a certain path to get a job and transform their communities, more attractive and with a better future. that of the combos.
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