Colombian President Gustavo Petro has given the order to eliminate the so-called social strata to help combat classism. Since the 1990s, society has been subdivided, from an administrative point of view, into six levels.
The purpose was for the most affluent areas, located in strata five and six, to subsidize the most impoverished areas of levels one, two and three. Phrases such as “you can see his stratum”, used to point out someone’s supposed lack of taste or manners, serve as a euphemism for rancid classism, writes Pablo Escalona.