the ugliness after 25 years: scene analysis regarding warfare

There's a scene in the many-times-over spun-off and remade "Yo Soy Betty, La Fea," that Guinness-record-holding Colombian telenovela written by Fernando Gaitán which aired from 1999-2001, that seems so out of place it can make you wonder whether the entire 150-hour-long saga is more an allegory for something large-scale rather than an oftentimes-goofy melodrama about a nerdy unattractive secretary playing cat-and-mouse with her narcissist boss at the offices of a fashion house. The scene is found in what's originally the 168th episode, a twenty-two-minute run where now-streamable episodes have been edited together to be between 45 minutes to an hour. The episode aired on the 16th of June 2000, and the edited version you can watch is the 68th episode entitled "Entre Cuadros de Picasso." The character Catalina Ángel (played by Celmida Luzardo), a publicist and friend to many of the series' characters, is explaining a replica of a Picasso to a group of s...