Dozens of people came on motorcycles and on foot to a tractor trailer stopped in the Jardin corregimiento, jurisdiction of Cáceres, Bajo Cauca Antioquiato loot it.
(Hydroelectric El Guavio: blockades are lifted and operation would restart).
It happened on the afternoon of this Friday, September 23, and is part of the vehicles that were stolen in this subregion of the department during the day.
Anderson Quiceno, director of the Cargo Carriers Association (ATC), indicated that 30 vehicles were stolen and four occupants were injured.
“Four drivers injured for defending their vehicles and merchandise. The mob attacked them. We have more or less lost 120 billion pesos in what has elapsed since the strike in that area”explained the directive.
(Companies insist on the illegality of blockades, after a report from the IACHR).
He added that of the 350,000 tons transported, 2,000 had already been lost in perishable products and 1,000 in looting this afternoon.
According to the mining union of Guarumo, which since last Wednesday has carried out a series of blockades on the road that connects Medellín with the Atlantic Coast, those responsible are not related to your protest.
“From the community of Guarumo, any act of violence and inhuman treatment committed against citizens is rejected, since it does not represent the ideals and delegitimizes the peaceful demonstration that began in the district of Guarumo, Cáceres”, says the letter.
They claim to be open to dialogue and ask those who support them, “Do not stain the peaceful demonstration with violent acts.”
General Henry Armando Sanabria Cely, director of the National Police, reported that a minor has already died due to these blockades who had an accident with some trees that they crossed on the road.
(‘Lockdowns hit the confidence to do business’).
Luis Fernando Suárez, Secretary of the Government of Antioquia, He denounced that there are patients who have not been able to be transferred by ambulance to the city of Medellín.
In the 53 kilometers that separate the municipalities of Tarazá and Caucasia, 10 blocking points were located that prevent the entry and exit of vehicles.
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