Medellin: Poverty, Blame the victims

On a recent personal trip to Medellin, Colombia's second most populous city, I encountered this sign in one of the city's biggest slums, Las Comunas. It's translation is this: "Bro, I'm pregnant." With two advices following: "To get pregnant you need two, A pregnant girl or adolescent is poverty for sure". I have many problems with this sign. First, the sign lays the responsibility on poor Colombians to get out of poverty, leaving the criminal government of Colombia off the hook.
It's your classic, focus on the victim argument. Study after study has shown that when women are giving access to higher education and have a higher level of living standards their more inclined to have children later in life. The argument that poor people of Las Comunas just need to have planned pregnancy or not produce children at all won't do anything to help them out of their misery. It's concrete government projects, employment opportunities, access to free public education, free healthcare. This is where the center of attention should be, what is the government of Medellin doing to fight poverty? Not on public ads focusing on the non-existing choices poor people of Las Comunas have.
This is very reminiscent to Barack Obama's fathers day speech when he had the audacity to lay the blame the reason for why Blacks continue to be left behind in society on absent black fathers. As if black fathers have control over the incarceration rates of the black population. As if black fathers have control of the unemployment levels in their communities. As if black fathers have control on who gets access to higher education. We need to systematically reject the blame the victims argument, and lay the blame where it should be, on those who run our society.