A researcher protesting on Plaza Bolivar this week displays a sign claiming he needs a microscope to see his science budget. |
'Did you know that the government plans to cut 40% of the science and technology budget? |
Science isn't the only area scheduled to suffer: The environmental budget is also on the chopping block. That makes no sense in a country suffering a horrific deforestation rate, and in which the guerrilla demobilization has created new environmental challenges.
The big winner? Defense - which makes no sense, since the FARC, Colombia's biggest and oldest guerrilla group, just signed a peace treaty, gave up its weapons and demobilized.
Running with full tanks: Pick-up trucks carry soldiers thru La Candelaria. |
An El Tiempo graphic showing the government's 2018 budget proposal. The environment and science lost. The military won. |
2 comments:
Defense - makes no sense? And you claim Trump is a science denier.
Raising the defense budget when peace is at hand (hopefully) makes no sense. A wasn't it Trump who called global warming a Chinese conspiracy? And who seems to believe that vaccinations cause autism.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/13/trump-vaccine-conspiracy-theory-robert-kennedy-jr
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