December 5, 2022, 23:24 PM
December 5, 2022, 23:24 PM
They hope that it will not go unpunished like Las Londras. The Secretary of the Environment of the Santa Cruz Governor’s Office, Jhonny Rojas, maintained that The Santa Cruz Departmental Prosecutor’s Office was forced to form a commission of prosecutors to investigate encroachment and environmental damage aroused in the aquifer recharge zone in the Lomas de Arena Park Conservation Unit.
“We hope that the Police and the Public Ministry can once and for all carry out their work according to their competence. Let’s hope that Mr. Mariaca’s word is fulfilled and can evict these oppressors,” said Rojas.
On the night of this Monday, December 5, the authority emphasized that the departmental entity issued a 12-month administrative environmental pause due to the subjugation of properties in the aquifers from the park of Lomas de Arena. To make such a determination, a prior ‘in situ’ inspection of the area was carried out due to the lack of timely discharge from the affected municipalities of Santa Cruz de la Sierra and La Guardia.
He remembered that between July and November two inspections were carried out at the Lomas de Arena Conservation Unitspecifically in an area of recharge of the aquifers that supply the liquid element to the capital.
After carrying out the respective evaluation together with the addresses such as Direna and Searpi, a report was issued confirming that the unplanned urban development, together with the irregular urban settlements, the burning of pastures and the open-air dump in the buffer zone are causing environmental damage in this aquifer zone.
The governor of Santa Cruz himself, Luis Fernando Camacho, denounced that there was a “carriage of people after the meeting of the social organizations” and that were installed on the premises of the Kim Tourist Center.
He indicated that with the Environmental Administrative pause it seeks to guarantee the property right of the owner of the properties (Kim) and that the Government protect the water reservoirs that benefit the population of Santa Cruz.
“This decision goes hand in hand with a request that is made to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), to put down these attitudes of subjugation. I am not saying this for political purposes, but because it has come from the lips of the Kim family themselves, who have certified that the day the MAS rally was held in Chiriguano (October 21) was when they settled in this area of the Hills of Sand”, Camacho asserted.
Rojas explained that a meeting was held with both municipalities on November 22 to clear up doubts about the report, but they did not present their defenses on the date indicated by the departmental secretariats.
Subsequently, he said that both municipal governments fulfilled said commitment, but The one from Santa Cruz de la Sierra has to make a complement to his report.
