ANDLast Friday night the end of the protest was confirmed that kept the vehicular passage blocked in the sales sector that, on the road that communicates to Bogotá with Tunja.
On this occasion, the governor of Boyacá, Carlos Amaya, announced that A 10 -point agreement between the peasant communities of the moors and the high hillside and the national government, After five days of meetings.
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The conversations began on Wednesday, August 6, with the participation of the Ministers of Agriculture, Martha Carvajalino, and of Environment (E), Irene Vélez, together with the directors of the National Land Agency, National Parks, the Agustín Codazzi Geographic Institute, the Agropecuaria Rural Planning Unit and a technical team of 40 people.
The departmental president stressed that the process was developed without use of the public force. “There is a change of posture to address the protest. Here the esmad was not used or gas. Here the dialogue triumphed”, He declared.
He also highlighted the environmental role of communities in the conservation of high mountain ecosystems. “Peasants who have taken care of the moors, peasants who understand that their territory is sacred and that first God and then the water, as my grandfather Don Eliodoro said“, said.
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The agreement reached consists of ten points and will be formalized today August 9 at noon.
Photo: Yecid Medina Alfonso. Time
The agreement reached consists of ten points and will be formalized today August 9 at noon, in a ceremony on the Boyacá bridge. The signature of the Ministers of Environment (E) and Agriculture, as well as the directors of the National Land Agency, National Parks, the IGAC, the UPRA and CORPOBOYACÁ, is planned.
According to the governor, the act will have a symbolic character. “This time blood will not be shed, but hope will be harvested and example will be given to Colombia and the world,” he said.
With this agreement, traffic is restored in a key road corridor for communication between the center of the country and the East, after a protest that, in addition to the blockade for sale, He had motivated logistics adjustments in different activities, including the reprogramming of the Saber 11 tests in some municipalities of Boyacá, Cundinamarca and Santander and Santander.
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Diana K. Rodríguez T.
Portfolio journalist
