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ÉTAT DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS EN LAS RELACIONES FAMILIARES

than other societies, because that abundance of digital goods that have been accumulating
since the middle of the last century—as well as material goods, such as food and medicines—is

available only to a sector of the global population [10]. Digital technology, while offering

opportunities that have given rise to phenomena such as those described above, also operates

as a great differentiator between those who live on one side of the digital divide, in the XXI
century, and those who live on the other side, in a mixture of centuries ranging from the

Middle Ages to the XX century; between those who control the information, such as the

entrepreneurs behind Google, Uber and Airbnb, and those who provide it, along with their
products and services, for crumbs of the total profits accumulated by companies, while losing

their social security in the way—such as medical care and pension for retirement or illness;

between those who benefit from digital products and those who pay the price for living in

regions rich in resources necessary for their production without the necessary infrastructure
to exploit them for the common good—as is the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo,

where the exploitation of tin is in the hands of violent paramilitary groups that exploit the

population and tin deposits to their own benefit [11].

As Farida Shaheed points out in her report to the United Nations [12], access to cultural
heritage is and should be considered a human right, which includes in a particularly relevant

way access to digital information and services, because of its abundance and ease of access. It

is inhumane that, having the technological capacity and the necessary economic resources—as
has been shown in projects in Mexico to provide low-cost digital telephony in areas “where it

is not convenient to invest” [13], as well as projects in other Latin American countries to

endow to rural schools of computers connected in network and with access to the Internet—
there is a great amount of population in regions of Latin America without possibility of

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