The Government of Colombia will benefit the communities of La Guajira

According to the program of President Gustavo Petro, who is carrying out with his cabinet the People’s Government campaign in demarcating the borders in the far north of the country, the Transition Pact will also be signed.

The region’s Energy Transition Document will be signed by Wayuu authorities, communities, energy companies, and national and local governments.

The government announced yesterday that it will issue two decrees to enforce the priority use of water for human consumption in the province of La Guajira.

Likewise, Petro and the head of the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications, Mauricio Lescano, have delivered 3,300 computers and 51 innovation labs to 117 schools in this department, which will benefit 47,000 students.

This Tuesday, the Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Susana Mohamed, and the Director of National Natural Parks, Luis Olmedo, announced a plan to restore, use and protect 24,000 hectares of the Maquira National Natural Park.

This is an operation that will have an investment of 40 billion pesos (about $950 million) and will be implemented with the support of the traditional ethnic authorities in the region.

In the context of the national government’s tour of the province of La Guajira, the Director of the Special Administrative Unit of Solidarity Organizations, Mauricio Rodrigues, reports that this year the entity will invest approximately 1.8 billion pesos (about $429 million) in order to revitalize the salt flats of Manaure.

The investment includes revitalizing industrial production, washing, activating the salt mill, and promoting the transportation and marketing of salt.

According to the announcement, its reactivation will benefit more than three thousand families in that area and provide no less than 400 job opportunities.

Since last Monday, the President of Colombia has led the “Government with the People” campaign in the province of La Guajira, one of the most vulnerable regions of the country.

This northernmost region of Colombia is predominantly indigenous (the Wayuu people account for 48 percent of the constituency’s population) and has the highest rate of monetary poverty in the country, at 67.4 percent in 2021, according to the National Statistics Department.

The said data is reflected in the preventable deaths of the elderly and children due to malnutrition and related causes, in the failure to guarantee the economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of a large part of the population and in cases of begging and in the streets, according to the Special Rapporteur on these rights of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

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