After five days of locks, peasants and government, they achieve agreements. The signature of the document will be this August 9 on the Boyacá bridge.
At 12:00 am this Saturday, August 9, the official signature of the agreement will be held with the presence of senior national government officials.
In Boyacá, five days were completed from the peasant and parameter strike that, with blockages and intermittent steps, affected mobility in the Bogotá -Tunja road, especially at the height of sale that, generating delays in the transport of passengers and cargo.
On the night of this August 8, the peasants reached agreements with the National Government after demanding the repeal of two resolutions that, according to them, directly affect their productive activity and permanence in the territory.
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Roberto Arango, spokesman for mobilization, explained that The first is resolution 1275 of 2014, whereby the Ministry of Environment characterized the municipality of El Cocuy as a forest reserve zone, “Leaving out agricultural activities and agricultural border, designating it only as a conservation zone.”
The second is resolution 1405, which delimited the Sierra Nevada Páramo de El Cocuy. According to Arango, This rule “violated several legal and constitutional provisions”, including Convention 169 of the ILO, whose article 6 requires prior consultation for decisions that affect indigenous territories.
He assured that The Ministry, “in its eagerness to delimit and persecute the peasants, ignored that constitutional mandate.”
The governor of Boyacá, Carlos Amaya, He presented to the peasants the last legal alternative to repeal both resolutions.
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The proposal, accepted by the protesters, establishes that, With the legal advice of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia (UPTC), on August 19 the repeal will be firm, “As a guarantee of legal certainty and protection of the peasantry as a subject of rights and special constitutional protection.”
However, it was clarified that The Páramo will maintain an environmental protection instrument against extractive activities such as mining and hydrocarbons, in order to preserve ecosystems.
However, At 12:00 am this Saturday, August 9, the official firm of the agreement will be held with the presence of senior national government officials at the Boyacá bridgefact that will mark the definitive closure of this protest day.
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