This Wednesday, August 6, the third day of the indefinite strike of small miners in Boyacá is celebrated. In the midst of the cessation of activities, President Gustavo Petro sent a message to the protesters through a short interview of activist René Jiménez.
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In the recording, the Head of State said “You can’t have mining in moors because agriculture is over and water ends”.
He added that if water is affected, life is also over, “Including human life in Boyacá”.
Petro has insisted innumerable times that the country must make traffic towards a clean and sustainable economy, an objective that must be impossible.
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Fairly, The protest of the Miners of Boyacá seeks to demand measures that guarantee the stability of the mining sector and its workers, Given the restrictive government policies for this productive line of the country.
The unemployment was also joined by the Eyeham Federation, an organization that groups communities and peasant and indigenous organizations that inhabit and work in the moors of Colombia.
President Gustavo Petro
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Parameros demand guarantees so that they can work on the moors and not evict them from the area.
According to Carlos Cante, executive president in the National Federation of Coal Producers (Fenalcarbón), there are several requests that small miners are requesting the National Government.
The first thing they ask for are actions to reduce coal consumption and another point is the increase in taxes that have been decreed for this sector.
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“Very particular problems that the small miners face in the different regions that have to do with their situation and is the enormous reduction in the consumption and supply of coals, particularly in what has to do with the generation of energy for some decisions that the national government has been making and also the increase in the costs that the small mining has had to assume by the new taxes that the national government has created and that today puts them in a fairly complex situation. Cantte highlighted.
In addition, he mentioned that this indefinite strike is also related to breaches by the national government in the form of small coal mining and the increase in the cost of freight in a disproportionate manner fundamentally from the destinations of the department of Boyacá towards the ports.
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