December 5, 2022, 10:30 PM
December 5, 2022, 10:30 PM
This Monday morning, a Special Commission for the Defense of Land, Territory and Human Resources of the Departmental Legislative Assembly (ALD) of Santa Cruz, arrived at the private property Las Parabas, located 75 kilometers from the municipality of Ascensión de Guarayos, for inspect the property that was invaded by a group of people that they were armed and that they operated violently.
The encroachment took place at dawn on December 1. when a mob of 200 armed people entered the property that is located in the area called El Trébol, which comprises three properties, where They burned the camp with three sheds, a tractor, and a caterpillar that had been rented from a Mennonite, and they beat the workers.
During the inspection, the members of the commission evidenced that in the Las Parabas property, the bullies built a shedpossibly for a headquarters, and they ‘staked’ several hectares to divide the houses of the settlers.
The inspection was also carried out in the Las Palmas and Santa Elisa properties.
Assemblywoman Yelly Baldivieso reported that according to the inspection carried out and the evidence collected at the place They will analyze what legal actions they will take against the group of bullies.
He also questioned that to date there are no people apprehended by the Prosecutor’s Officedespite the damage that was caused to the property and the work tools that were burned and destroyed.
For his part, the assemblyman and secretary of the Land Commission, Iván Quezada, repudiated the vandalism with which the people acteda situation that should not remain unpunished, he assured.
“They have established their community shed in protected areaswhere you can not cut down, or dismantle, “he denounced.
Just in time to call the oppressors to reflect, Roberto Urañavi, an indigenous assembly member of the Guarayos People, expressed his concern about the situation that the province he represents is going through, because now this irregular group take private property, and later “they will want to subdue the indigenous territories.”
“The corresponding instances ignore the complaints. We do not want to think that these people have been paid to destroy everything in their path and I do not doubt that they do not respect our forests and continue with their settlements”, he expressed.
Institutions in Guarayos confirm eviction of oppressors
Juan Yomo, president of the Central Inter Ethnic Ascension (CIEA), confirmed to EL DEBER that they will proceed to evict the oppressors, because the deadline expiredeither to leave the Las Parabas property.
He reported that this Friday, December 9, in the morning, They will hold an assembly in which they will define the day and time of the eviction.
“The eviction is a fact because the term has already expired,” he confirmed to EL DEBER in telephone contact.
The CIEA document indicates that if the Police and INRA ignore the resolution vote, “The Guarayo people will make use of their right over their ancestral territory and will enforce this right according to our uses and customs, and will carry out the corresponding eviction”.
