More than 900 people affected is the partial balance of a huge landslide in the Panamerican Highway, the main highway of southwestern Colombia.
According to the Government of Cauca, there are more than 920 affected who are part of 248 families who live on the sidewalks of Santa Clara, La Soledad, Párraga Viejo, Chontaduro, Altos de las Yerbas and La Laja.
Meanwhile, the villages of Florida, Loma Bajo, Jigual, Pinzón, Berlin, Retiro, Bella Vista, Peña Blanca, Párraga and Pan de Azúcar are incommunicado, the Cauca Government added in a statement.
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For his part, the governor of the department of Nariño, Jhon Rojas, He assured that this region is incommunicado and asked the National Government for measures to avoid shortages. “You have to see the alternative for the sister Republic of Ecuador“, said.
“There are more than 160 families already in shelters, more than 60 houses were completely destroyed, in the whole area there are more than 700 victims“, had said, for his part, President Gustavo Petro, in Cali, Where did he get after suspending his last activity in Chili, where he was conducting a state visit, to return to Colombia and face the great landslide in the southern department of Cauca.
The collapse occurred on monday january 9 in the municipality of Rosas, where the landslide devastated houses in various villages (villages) in the La Soledad area.
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not so far there is loss of human life because the families were previously evacuated in an operation in which the Colombian Air Force intervened (fac), the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (ungrd) and other organizations such as the Civil Defense and the Red Cross.
“We can say that the National Risk Management Unit managed to avoid a tragedy because it foresaw it by previously evacuating the family from the disaster area, which is why there are no deaths.“, Petro pointed out.
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Gustavo Petro.
Presidency
The mandatary said that the Government studies the measures “so much urgency as medium and long term to achieve fundamental connectivity, which is that of the south of the country, which has to do with practically all of South America”.
At the time, he announced “billion dollar investment” to make a journey of 70 kilometers of the Panamericana far from the area where there is a tectonic fault.
“This will allow a much better flow of mobility from all of South America and from our departments in the south of Colombia with Bogotá and with the center of the country,” assured.
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In addition, he commented that they will buy nearby farms to relocate the affected population “can’t go back to the same place” because of the risk he is running, and he said he will meet with community as soon as weather permits.
Petro declared, in November 2022, the situation of “disaster“in the country for the season of rains that reaches the highest levels in 40 years and which left, last year, a total of 205 deaths and more than 500,000 homeless.
Given the problems caused by the collapse, hea Civil Aeronautics established measures to facilitate connectivity aerial view of the departments of Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Nariño, the three most affected.
In that sense, commercial and cargo airlines “may, as of the date, carry out additional flights, charter flights or series of flights to and from the airports“from the cities of Popayán, in Cauca; Cali, in Valle del Cauca; and Pasto and Ipiales, in Nariño, detailed the Civil Aeronautics in a statement.
“The decision seeks to establish an air bridge that allows guaranteeing the connectivity of the cities and departments affected by the road emergency,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Transportation, Guillermo Reyes, He stated that another alternative is being worked on for people traveling on the Pan-American Highway.
EFE
