The agreement recognizes peasants as strategic allies in the defense of the Páramo
The government and the peasants of the Páramo de Boyacá areas reached an agreement to lift the strike that lasted five days, so that the roads in the center of the country were free of blockages, official sources reported this Saturday.
With this agreement The unemployment convened by the laborers and coal miners of the departments of Boyacá and Cundinamarca is taken for granted, to which the ‘parameros’ of Boyacá joined, who asked to lift the prohibitions that declared the Páramo de El Cocuy as a forest reserve.
“After five days of dialogues with the peasant communities of the high mountain of the Cocuy, we lift the strike. We agreed to protect the mining moor and guarantee family agricultural production. The change is with people and without using the public force, “said the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development in a statement.
According to the environmental portfolio, “Ten key measures were agreed to guarantee peasant permanenceThey protect their rights and recognize their role in environmental conservation. “
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Measures
The agreement recognizes peasants as strategic allies in the defense of the moor and establishes legal, productive and territorial guarantees for their permanence in the ecosystem.
It was also included that there is dialogue on territories excluded from the agricultural border and also “community participation in environmental processes will be guaranteed, considering the realities of each territory. “
For his part, the governor of Boyacá, Carlos Amaya, stressed that the solution was achieved without public force intervention. “The peasants win, the country wins, The Government wins and the moors win, which will be taken care of by those who believe in their territory. “
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Meanwhile, Roberto Arango, representative of the peasants, said the agreement guarantees that communities can return to their lands without the fear of being displaced.
“We will continue to produce food for humanity,” said Arango, who valued the will of the central government and that of Boyacá, who was a mediator.
The protest that began last Monday, convened by associations of small and medium -sized coal miners, included blockages on central roads in Boyacá and Cundinamarca where the traffic that enters and leaves Bogotá to the center and north of the country is mobilized.
On July 24, the Government and the Riceros achieved an agreement consisting of seven points and includes the regulation of the price of the green paddy rice, after eleven days of a national strike that caused blockages on roads of eleven of the 32 departments that make up the country.
According to guild data, on which more than 500,000 families depend, cereal production was not profitable before this pact due to low prices per haigrada.
Source: EFE and Integrated Information System
