(Quicktime) (Download Quicktime movie (26 MB) | Flash movie) Maria Isabel is a friend from Medellin. I met her when I was living for the first time in New Jersey, going to College there. She has lived in the US and in Argentina, and she has a spirit for traveling, she wants to see the world. As it says in the video, about 10% (4 million) of Colombia s population live abroad. Most of these people are educated, middle-class, like Maria Isabel - there s a real brain drain happening. As opposed to Mexico, in Colombia the poor don t have the means to go to the USA (it s too far away). So the exodus has happened mostly in the middle class, the exact group of people Colombia can least afford to loose. PS: during filming we plugged the microphone in the wrong part of the camera, so the sound isn t very good for this one. Apologies!
