DOES THE GOVERNOR OF ANTIOQUIA CARE MORE ABOUT A DRUG THAN ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF CAUCASIA?

There are those who like to shield their absolute lack of interest in human dignity in the supposed defense of “legality.” They justify actions in complete contravention of life under the logic that “they are complying with the rules” and turn a deaf ear to the suffering of the people because above all there is “respect for institutions”, using convenient interpretations of the law.

That is why I am not surprised that Governor Andrés Julián Rendón’s response to the clamor of the people of Caucasia to be able to have decent housing has been to try to apply violence, saying that he does so to defend private property under the protection of the law. He forgets to mention that the property is currently the subject of litigation to determine its legitimate owner, and that who he would be defending with his violent intervention would be the confessed drug trafficker Juan Gabriel Úsuga Noreña, putting his interest above the people of Caucasia who needs decent housing.

Faced with the situation of irregular occupation of the Santa Elena property in the

municipality of Caucasia, it is pertinent to say that I fully support the decision of the Special Assets Society headed by Daniel Rojas Medellín to withdraw from the complaint filed by the custodian of the property in question and whose purpose was the immediate eviction and expulsion of the people, children, women. and older adults, including victims of the conflict, who are occupying the property.

It is the flag and mission of the Government of Change to safeguard the life, honor, rights and freedoms of the entire population, especially populations in vulnerable situations; I urge the National Government to search for a comprehensive solution to this problem, emphasizing that President Petro’s visit to the municipality showed the desire of its residents to be able to have a home and land to be able to work in the fields and improve their living situation.

For decades, the Bajo Cauca subregion has been in the middle of armed conflict, which has resulted in the forced displacement of thousands of peasants who today are desperate without land and without housing. In Caucasia alone, according to the Single Registry of Victims, there are 33,000 victims of the conflict living, many of them peasants who even have endless processes of restitution of their lands.