The celebration that we organised, as the PBI field team in Barrancabermeja, we felt it to be a necessity, because this was one of the places where we first had a presence, over twenty years ago, and where we still work today. We also took into account the wishes expressed by the people we accompany and other human rights defenders, about the symbolic importance of a celebration like ours in the Middle Magdalena region, giving a chance to participate for those we accompany every day and who didn’t travel to the celebration in Bogota.