The corridor will facilitate the transportation of food and medical care to municipalities such as Maicao and Uribia.
Roads in Alta Guajira in the winter season.
Courtesy community.
Given the difficulties of access roads In the extreme north of Colombia, the wayúu indigenous communities They have suffered from not being able to move land route to municipalities of the department of La Guajirataking into account the lack of access roads and the winter wave, which keeps them incommunicado.
Recently, the Venezuelan government approved the opening of a humanitarian corridor to attend the indigenous communities of Alta Guajira and mitigate the humanitarian crisis. The consensus responds to a request presented by Colombia.
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“Today I must celebrate the work of the binational neighborhood commission, in which the UNGRD (Risk Management), the Foreign Ministry and of course the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuelathanks to that work today we can celebrate that we can send Colombian aid, through that small fragment of the Venezuelan geography to be able bring it closer to the citizens of La Guajira“, explained the director of the Risk Management Unit, Carlos Carrillo.
He governor of La Guajira, Jairo Aguilarstated that, during the visit of President Gustavo Petrorequested the consolidation of the corridor taking into account that it is an urgent need while strategies are defined to improve road structures.
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Among the supplies to be distributed are food kits, toiletries and kitchen productswhich will be vital for the indigenous communities of that remote area of the country.
In addition, it was reported from the Risk Management Unit that there will be a protocol to guarantee logistical operations such as land transit from Paraguachón to Castilletes, and medical care to municipalities like Maicao and Uribia.
