00:00We have a big problem that is a beautiful beauty that is called the mountains
00:04The Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta
00:06And the one who dominates the mountains dominates the plain
00:09The one who has the control of the mountain mountain
00:11has the control of the whole territory
00:14There is a very recent memory of painful moments
00:19because of the violence
00:20It has proven that violent situations
00:24again cause discomfort and exhaustion in the communities
00:30One, as leader, comes out of his house but does not know if he will return
00:34and we as leaders have to accompany our companions
00:38and with fear and fear of leaving our houses
00:42and not knowing what to face
00:45The society is afraid of
00:47We know that there is an invisible presence
00:53The armed armed forces control and rule in good parts
00:58and make agreements
01:00especially in rural areas
01:03We have coincided with some investigators
01:05of the armed conflict
01:06that the conquistadors of the Sierra are a heritage
01:08of the armed armed groups
01:09that come from the paramilitarism of Hernán Giraldo C
01:12After the mobilization
01:13of the Ley 975 of Justicia and Paz
01:15We organized around 12 structures in the territory
01:18that had the same policies, the same dynamics
01:20and the same logic of control of the territory
01:22as well as the same criminal activities
01:24and the same businesses
01:30Reducing this to that it is a problem
01:31is to simplify a problem
01:34that has 70 years
01:35and it is simply a question
01:38that the sierras
01:39allow you to maintain control
01:41and maintain an army
01:42that supports that control
01:44That is to say
01:44maintain an armed arm
01:45that supports the illegal economies
01:48that supports the extorsion
01:49that supports the sicariat
01:51and that supports the visibility
01:52in the territories
01:55In the urban areas
01:56there are some arrangements
01:58and constantly
01:59there are also
02:01threats
02:02on sectors
02:03especially
02:04stigmatized
02:05such as the popular youth
02:06that constantly
02:08are under the control
02:10of these groups
02:11There are victims
02:13every day
02:14and the issue
02:15of the micro traffic
02:17and the deterioration
02:18of the social tissue
02:19is also
02:20an impact
02:21based on the presence
02:22of these structures
02:34a politicization
02:35that started in 2020
02:37has become a self-defense
02:39That process has been deepened in the framework of the total peace,
02:42because they seek to be taken into account for a socio-political negotiation,
02:48and in this sense they would not be interested in the commitment, but the negotiation.
02:52They regulate the economy of the territory,
02:55and in this case, when I talk about the regulation of the economy,
02:57they are legal and legal,
02:59and they have achieved a full governance of tourism,
03:04not only attracting tourists, but also foreign investors,
03:08guaranteeing that their investment is in good hands,
03:11in the sense that there is security in the territory.
03:13We have systematically documented,
03:15first, that the autodefensas conquistadoras de la sierra
03:18have to do with the narcotics in the puerto of Santa Marta,
03:21they are operational of this business.
03:23Second, they have been extorsioning consumers,
03:26even they themselves have sent public videos
03:30in which they tell us how the mechanism of extorsion
03:33and who they have to give them the money disfrazed
03:37from a supposed security.
03:38Third, they have to do with the business of the microtráfico,
03:41and it is part of these horizontal wars with the Grand Golf
03:43for this business.
03:44And fourth, they have to do with the reclutamiento of menores.
03:59The conquistadores of the Sierra Nevada have an open war with the
04:05autodefensas caitanistas of Colombia that have tried to incursion in their territory.
04:08Since the 2019 began the war, first in Santa Marta
04:13and then later in the rural area,
04:14but until this moment,
04:15it seems that the correlation of forces is favorable
04:17to the conquistadores of the sierra.
04:19There is an explicative hypothesis
04:21why the AGC did not have been able to doble
04:23militarily to the ACSN,
04:25which we are talking about
04:27is that a criminal criminal
04:29that has its roots very deeply
04:32in that territory.
04:34All the members of the ACSN
04:36were born in that territory,
04:38grew up and fought for the defense of their home,
04:43while the conquistadores
04:45came from outside,
04:47they did not have a social base
04:48and they did not have support.
04:49However, the incursion of a armed group
04:52in these days,
04:53called The Muerte,
04:54which in words textuales
04:55of the President of Santa Marta
04:56and the President of the Metropolitan Police
04:58is a faction of the conquistadores of the sierra,
05:00has demonstrated that the criminal governance
05:02has expanded to the urban area.
05:04Hace 20 years,
05:05Santa Marta did not respond to the call
05:07in the urban area
05:08of a criminal organization
05:09for a break-up.
05:11In the same way,
05:12there was configured
05:12a wrongly called
05:14mechanism of social protection
05:15in which more than 25 people
05:18were mentioned,
05:18of which more than 12 suicides
05:20with people in pamphlet,
05:22configuring what could be
05:23a mechanism of extermination.
05:25It would be too irresponsible
05:26to close the eyes
05:28to this violence situation
05:30that also has echo in the city.
05:33It is not just a problem
05:34in the field,
05:35it is also in the city.
05:36We want peace,
05:37we agree with the defenders
05:39of human rights,
05:40the investigators,
05:40the society in general,
05:41but it has to be a plan
05:43and organized,
05:44with methods
05:45and with an appropriate mechanism
05:46of verification,
05:47especially to the homicide
05:49and to any criminalization
05:50of human rights.
05:51There are four issues
05:52that cannot be
05:53highlighted
05:54if you want to build
05:55a sustainable peace.
05:57The first one
05:58is to talk about
05:58how to strengthen
06:00the sustainable ecotourism
06:03and agriculture
06:04in the Sierra Nevada.
06:06The strengthening
06:06of the economic
06:07is to review
06:08the cultural development
06:10of tourism,
06:11especially for the
06:12Natural Tairona
06:13and the Natural Sierra Nevada
06:14of Santa Marta.
06:15Second,
06:16there is to have
06:16the right to the victims.
06:19We have to know
06:20as a society
06:21who has benefited
06:22from this violence
06:23and who has supported
06:25and supported
06:26and have received
06:27benefits
06:28of these structures
06:29in all the political sectors.
06:31The truth
06:31must be a right
06:32for the victims.
06:33There must be
06:34a discussion
06:34about concrete mechanisms
06:35to protect
06:37the lives of defenders
06:38and leaders
06:39of human rights.
06:40The city
06:40cannot be exposed
06:42to its defenders
06:43to the constant
06:45threat.
06:46The government
06:47must design
06:47a special program
06:49for the protection
06:50of the social leaders.
06:51And fourth,
06:52there must be
06:53there must be
06:54a community
06:54with monitoring
06:55by the civil society.
06:57The organizations
06:58have manifested
06:58that they have
06:59a will of peace,
07:01but that without
07:01monitoring
07:02of these threats
07:04and humanitarian threats
07:06will be
07:06as a poetic
07:08that cannot be
07:10controlled.
07:11The government
07:12calls
07:13to feel
07:13with these groups
07:14to try to
07:16mediate things
07:16because otherwise
07:17we will have to
07:17move.
07:19It is very sad
07:21to leave one
07:22from their town,
07:23from their region,
07:24from the place
07:24where they have been
07:25seen.
07:25To the armed actors
07:27who are present
07:28in the Magdalena,
07:29I would say
07:30that it is necessary
07:32that in that
07:34peace
07:34that appears
07:36in their desire
07:37to sit at the table
07:38with the government,
07:40they have
07:40a broad perspective.
07:41It is not only
07:42to normalize
07:43the situation
07:44of those who are now
07:45in the war,
07:46but also to listen
07:47to the victims,
07:49recognize them,
07:50reparate them,
07:51to them
07:52we owe them justice
07:53and reparation
07:55and recognition
07:57of their situation.
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