Food lack in Colombia

Abstract

In consideration of the issuance of Law 2097/21 that creates the Delinquent Food Debtors Registry (REDAM by its acronym in Spanish), and the negative impact that implies in the individual, family, and social context in Colombia the alarming theft by those who are obliged to provide food, attacking the most basic need for the human survival; the academic concern arises to address the issue with the purpose of adding a grain of sand, even if it is tiny, to help raise awareness regarding such reprehensible conduct. Therefore, the article is structured in five parts: firstly, an approximation to the concept of food; secondly, the specification of who is owed food; thirdly, a study of the food insistence crime; fourthly, the analysis of the aforementioned law; and, fifthly, some conclusions, emphasizing, in a transversal way, the necessity of raise awareness against an obligation natural, moral, legal, common sense, but unfortunately not everyone honors it, as it should be, especially when living in a Social State of Law in accordance with the Political Constitution of 1991.