By Aura Isabel Olano Correa
Anyone in Cauca who believes that their demand is crucial and that it ought to be attended to by whoever, merely knocks down timber, places some stones on the Panamericana and prevents highway customers from touring, as a result of their rights are above the rights of an immense inhabitants, similar to that which lives in southwestern Colombia, along with the harm to worldwide commerce that strikes alongside that freeway.
The blockades, to which communities, particularly indigenous folks, who’ve a PhD in violating the rights of others, haven’t solely remoted Cauca, however have additionally contributed to the struggle in opposition to unlawful teams, which typically are behind these mobilizations, benefiting from the truth that for many years this land has been with out god or legislation.
Where have the regional rulers been, whereas they sacrifice Cauca and its inhabitants? We have a number of administrations with the flag of peace, every with its slogan that they repeat like mantras, however with out materializing tasks, with out nationwide management, as different governors assume and acquire outcomes.
This lack of administration and execution causes social teams to demand compliance with agreements agreed upon way back, as is going on proper now within the north of Cauca, when residents of the La Salvajina dam demand agreed-upon works and providers. In training, infrastructure, provision of colleges and appointment of academics; put well being posts into operation, underneath the duty of the Government. Furthermore, the event of tasks established because of the development of the dam, for the municipalities of Suárez and Morales, is the duty of the nationwide authorities and personal corporations similar to Celsia, which haven’t complied with a ruling from the Constitutional Court. Hence the blockade of the North Pan-American Highway, close to Cajibío.
Simultaneously, within the south of Cauca, the blockage of the Panamericana, in Patía, is because of the truth that the Ministry of Education, whose head is Sister Inés Larrahondo Carabalí, sister of the predecessor and mentor of Octavio Guzmán, present governor, has not appointed academics.
There is not any justification for them to dam the highway and forestall the free circulation of land site visitors, critically harming the southwest and the nation normally. Nor is the shortage of Government that should adjust to what was agreed justified.
In Cauca, which has been unbound, a authorities with no particular weight, with no imaginative and prescient of the longer term, is now becoming a member of, incapable of fixing an pressing drawback, such because the appointment of academics in numerous municipalities of the division.
Faced with the horrible state of affairs of violence, the inhabitants are adrift, as a result of Governor Guzmán doesn’t assume the spokesperson that corresponds to him earlier than the Petro Government, to demand that the battle on this division be confronted, by means of public order measures, it’s That is, train authority, as well as, develop postponed tasks that profit city and rural communities.
At the time of scripting this column, people blocking the Panamericana within the Cajibío sector have been dumping a load of sand from the concession to proceed blocking the passage of passenger and cargo automobiles.
While Cauca is underneath siege from finish to finish, the place is Governor Guzmán?