At midnight this Friday, (August 8) finally from the sector of the Boyacá bridge, where the inhabitant peasants of Páramo gave a new battle for their rights throughout the week, SE achieved the agreement that allowed to lift the blockade that remained in the central route, called the double BTS road, that from Briceño (Cundinamarca) Intercommunica to Bogotá with much of the department of Boyacá, Los Santonderes and Casanare.
In this way it was possible to put end to two great protests: that of small coal miners that he had conjured the night of holidays, yla of the high slope peasants What are madeLamar Parameros, Already in the early hours of this Saturday. The two groups had agreed on date and time: last Monday at 4:00 in the morning, to advance their blockages with which they achieved their mission, to draw the attention of the national government.
Governor of Boyacá in unemployment of Parameros Photo:Boyacá governorate
And, in an unprecedented event, Boyacá dawned on August 4 with blocked roads at key points not only of the double road call, where in the Boyacá bridge sector the Páramo inhabitants, because according to them the government wanted to run from their properties; but in the glorieta sector of the Cemetery of Paipa, where the small miners crossed their barricades, who in turn also set points of CElecentration in Sogamoso, Tópaga and even Tunja, annoyed by the treatment that the government has been giving them and the criminalization to which they have submitted them.
With the passing of the hours, the despair began to seize the users of the roads, and even the same authorities; However, without using force, Without shooting a single gas or advancing some type of intervention To clear, the medication of Governor Carlos Amayaya was essential to calm the spirits, to ensure that in addition to the humanitarian corridor, intermittent steps were taken in the blockages and, that senior officials of the national government sit down to negotiate with the protesters in two tables for sale that, in the neighborhood of the neighborhood of the Boyacá bridge, and in Paipa.
They were five days of blockages in Boyacá Photo:Harvey Medina
The dialogue resulted. After several tables of agreements, tires and loosen They managed to reach agreements at ten of the eleven points, In Paipa the next day, after several hours of conversations, around 10:00 p.m. on August 7, Minister of Mines, Edwin Palma with other senior officials of the Petro government and the spokesmen of the small miners announced that they had reached an agreement and that from that moment the roundabout of the cemetery and other roads that were blocked by workers of the workers of the workers of the workers of the coal mines.
But the corridor was not yet enabled for free mobility, and midnight this Friday since Sale that was announced That he had reached an agreement between the National Government and the peasants, so immediately and after five days, he proceeded to open the passage on the double road.
“I feel happy, because more than reaching an agreement to Unlocking the road, which was a plea of all, here it has been achieved that a government finally listens to a group of noble peasants, who suffers the inclement cold to produce the food, peasants who are clear that God first and then the water, ”said Carlos Andrés Amaya Rodríguez.
This document of several pages on the historical agreement reached government and peasants inhabitants of Páramo, only lacks the signature that will be put at 12:00 this midday in the Boyacá bridge with the presence of the Ministers of Environment (E), the Deputy Minister of Social Dialogue, the director of the National Land Agency, the director of the Agustín Codazzi Geographical Institute Agricultural (UPRA) and the director of the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Boyacá (Corpoboyacá), among others.
Peasants in Boyacá reached agreements with national government Photo:Harvey Medina
«To the National Government, thanks, to the ministers, vice ministers and all the officials, also thanks to Mr. President Gustavo Petro, for his will and instruction so that the high government will sit here to listen and to negotiate,» the president of the Boyacenses said as prelude to the news of the agreement.
The governor also advanced that the PResident Gustavo Petro will go to El Cucuy, To materialize what was agreed in the Boyacá bridge sector, where from Monday morning, a group of about 400 inhabitants of Páramo, just from northern Boyacá and neighbors of the Nevado, had taken the central route that intercommunica to Bogotá with Boyacá, the Santonderes and Casanare.
“Following strict orders of the President of the Republic of respect for social mobilization, by the moors and the peasants, we have reached the agreement of all points, with a sample that this is a government of territory and we give an example that one can dialogue without using force ”, The Deputy Minister of Dialogue, Gabriel Rondón, said the beginning of the morning of this Saturday, while on the outskirts the same peasants, with the help of the police, withdrew their barricades from the two roads in which these five days had been planted.
Added the head of Social dialogue, referring to the protest of the inhabitants of the Páramothat this that happened is the result of agreements and decisions behind the backs of the people, «a country that does not respect its peasants and does not take care of its ecosystem, is a country that has the days counted.»
Parameros unemployment in Boyacá continues Photo:Harvey Medina
For its part Roberto Arango, the president of the Federation of Parameros of the Colombian NortheastHe said that it is very important to have been able to reach this agreement that is due to resistance, to the struggle and the hope of all the peasants who were there and that he will mean a change in the political orientation of the Colombian State, in front of the peasant class that was about to be extinguished by policies of previous governments.
For each of the agreements, that of small coal miners, and that of the parameters, commitments were established on the part of the national government, times were set, dates were given and even guarantors were appointed, yes, under the warning of both Boyacenses groups that if they were breached in the agreed, they will have to return to their protest.
Losses and affectations by blockages
Although the balance of losses, damages and losses for the blockages during the week, will only be known until the next few days, were many, of course, the effects generated between Monday morning and not only midnight this Friday, when the protest that remained was raised, but will run this weekend, if the amount of reservations canceled to the hotel and other decisions that were made by the protest and other decisions that were made by the protest were taken and other decisions They will end up impacting on Saturday and Sunday, at least.
Billions of pesos were lost following the two protestsaffecting an apartment that does not go through its best moment and that faces for example a crisis of the Papicular and other lines Also from the field, and even sectors such as the miner who couldn’t stand it anymore.
From the same government the losses for the departmental economy were priced in for the less 6,000 million pesos a day, But to that the amount of effects of those who transported foods and perishable articles were added, especially during the First 26 hours of blockages, CUndo did not allow the passage but of the so -called humanitarian corridor, that is, ambulances, authorities and people who found that they had medical appointments.
One of the most affected was undoubtedly precisely the dairy sector, if one takes into account that it is a highly perishable food and which millions of liters were ended up that were damaged in tanks and even the collection plants.
Of course, different events were also canceled, such as the traditional military stop with which it is commemorated on August 7 at the Boyacá bridge, or the president’s visit to Sotaquirá, which according to Governor Amaya, was scheduled for this Friday.
They also had to cancel sporting events such as one who was planned for Paipa, or postponement of the Colombian professional football matches in the B, in front of the eleven Caldas, or the Boyacá Chicó, in the A, in front of the equity, both to be played at the La Independencia de Tunja stadium.
But without a doubt one of the most worrying postponements is the one announced by the Colombian Institute for the Evaluation of Education (ICFES) as a preventive measure against the manifestations that were presented until yesterday in the department of Boyacá and that prevented the transfer of the necessary material for the application of the tests Know 11 calendar A, pre -knowledge and validation of the academic baccalaureate.
The decision will affect 22,570 people from the 123 municipalities of Boyacá cited in 27 municipalities of the department, as well as in two municipalities of Cundinamarca and three of Santander, where now a new date will have to be expected for application and that would put the delivery of results at risk with the rest of the country, where the test will be applied this Sunday, August 10. Harvey Medina for time – Boyacá.
At midnight on Friday, finally from the Boyacá bridge sector, where the inhabitant peasants of Páramo gave a new battle for their rights throughout the week, the agreement that allowed to lift the blockade that was left on the central route, called the double BTS road, which of Briceño (Cundinamarca) intercom to Bogotá with a large part of the department of Boyacá, the Santonderes and Casanare, was made.
Harvey Medina
For time – Boyacá.
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