The Colombian Congress begins to analyze the ‘Zero Cacho’ law to combat infidelity

The law is a proposal from liberal senator Karina Espinosa, who has introduced a bill to the Colombian Congress that aims to tackle childhood infidelity and other social problems in the neighboring country.

The congressman said that with this project, “Cero cacho” wants to “reform education in Colombia,” specifically Law 115 to “teach principles, values, and entrepreneurship.”

The bill aims to include values ​​education in the education plans of Colombian schools and colleges.

The proposal is broad as it aims not only to prevent various social problems such as infidelity and drug abuse, but also to help young people face their future with work plans.

“This bill is a major reform of Act 115, the Education Act. Firstly, in order to teach about principles and values, prevention of consumption of psychoactive substances, bullying, bullying, suicide in children and adolescents and another area, namely the field of entrepreneurship, we are very concerned that our young people when they reach the middle finish school they don’t know what to do, they don’t know how to make business plans, they don’t know how to do business, they are not trained for this, so we also have a specific curriculum for this subject,” Espinosa said according to Caracol Radio.

The same senator presented some banners on which she calls the law Cero cacho, explaining that it refers to all conduct “harmful, hurtful and moral, harmful and wrong, cruel, which one person commits against another, which threatens the family institution, which may affect the physical or mental health of one or more people, and erode the social fabric”. Among these he cites the consumption of psychoactive substances, bullying, infidelity and gender violence.

The legislator pointed out that infidelity has become a public health problem. For her, this is reflected in the numbers of domestic violence and suicides. In a radio interview, he recalled that drugs destroy society, as well as infidelity.

colleague response

“The #LeyCeroCacho is part of an ultra-conservative agenda that is slowly gaining momentum in Congress and that distances us from a liberal, inclusive and respectful society from the autonomy and free development of the personality of citizens,” the also liberal senator Juan Carlos Losada wrote on his Twitter account.