00:00When the miners came, let's say they're going to change their faces.
00:06When the miners came, the people imagined a better quality of life.
00:16With hope, because the development came to the municipality of Las Aguas.
00:44The cessation of mining is mainly a total ruin.
00:48Why a total ruin? Because those are the holes.
00:53The land, in order to be productive, they are in the fertile land.
00:58Because look, the land productive is where they are.
01:01Because this is a land that they took the part of the bottom, and that was the bottom.
01:07And that is the bottom, and that is the bottom, the destroyer.
01:09When they are without mining, where people are going to work?
01:15The communities of Latillo and Boquerón,
01:18located in the municipios cesarenses of El Paso and de La Jagua de Vírico,
01:21have not received social investment for more than 10 years
01:24due to a promise of resentment for environmental conditions.
01:30Today, the communities have severe impacts in their health,
01:33in the economy, in their natural resources and in their food security.
01:41What is the first concern for me is that it is a community that is in the heart of the
01:54Cesar Minero Center.
01:55How do they happen?
01:58How do they happen?
02:01People are vulnerable, without job, without agricultural projects,
02:10education is the soil.
02:12We have no public services.
02:15We are not even responsible for water.
02:17We have the right to the water here.
02:19We consume water from the underwater water,
02:21that we have done again with our own hands to be able to take the water and consume that water.
02:28No we have access to good services or anything.
02:33First of all, the health, I said, and I say,
02:37I still don't know, it's bad, we can still live like this in these conditions.
02:42The area of Latillo is one of the territories most affected by the carbon mining.
02:47In 2010, the Ministry of Environment and Development
02:49emit a Resolution 0970,
02:52under which it ordened the resendement of the community,
02:54because the conditions of contamination in the area
02:56could affect the health of the people.
02:58The panorama of the resendement,
03:00let's say that the same state,
03:02we didn't ask,
03:04emite the resolution
03:07and it says that the community should be asentated
03:12by the high level of contamination in the community.
03:15So, what we did was very forceful and very,
03:22we didn't receive that in a good way.
03:26We live here as a king, we live here as a king,
03:29we have a river full of fish,
03:30we are going to return to that.
03:54What happens is that there are some limitations
03:56in terms of investments in infrastructure.
03:59We can't do investments in infrastructure,
04:01because there is a limitation.
04:03It becomes a detriment patrimonial,
04:05taking into account that we are in a situation
04:09of manos atadas.
04:10If, in the vereda Latillo,
04:13happens the same thing that happened with Boquerón
04:15that they are not going to resend,
04:16they are going to give something similar
04:17and it is the compensation that the national government
04:20versus the mineras also.
04:21And of course, the local government
04:23we have to make some investments locales
04:26in that jurisdiction.
04:27But, until the moment,
04:29the resendement is done.
04:30And in the plan of resendement
04:32is included the construction
04:35of educational institutions
04:36and health institutions
04:38which will guarantee
04:40to the community
04:42some good services
04:44to the communities
04:46that nowadays would be able
04:47to make the resendement.
04:49Tras a dialogue
04:50that lasted six years
04:51between the community of Latillo
04:53and the three mineras
04:54that are in the territory,
04:55the agreement pact
04:56about resendement
04:57was stopped.
04:59The release of the territory
05:00of Prodelco
05:01and the Reorganization Empresarial
05:02of Colombia Natural Resources
05:03creates concern
05:04in the population.
05:05In 2019,
05:07there were already
05:08retrases in the
05:09cronogram
05:10of completion
05:11and just a two years
05:14of signing
05:16the plan
05:16of reasentement
05:18is suspended
05:19the process
05:20because of
05:21two situations.
05:23The first,
05:24the company
05:26of Colombia Natural Resources
05:28CNR
05:29was committed
05:30to a reorganization
05:32of the
05:33federal government
05:34to get the
05:34sweeping
05:35the process
05:37the件
05:40of the tax
05:41that
05:42were invested
05:43in
05:44the Fiducia
05:44to the implementation of
05:46the PARC
05:46were closed. And
05:48from October 2020
05:49until now the
05:50date
05:50of the
05:51process was
05:52suspended. We
05:53see a community
05:55in uncertainty
05:56to a
05:58state
05:58that the responsibility of the one to the other,
06:02the officials say that we can't invest,
06:05that's the responsibility of the companies,
06:07the companies say that we want to comply
06:11but the responsibility is from the ANLA
06:13because it doesn't give us clear directions,
06:16the ANLA says that we don't have the competence,
06:18that's the competence of the Ministry of Environment
06:21or the Ministry of Miners
06:23or the National Mineral Agency,
06:25and so has happened in this time,
06:28a transfer of responsibilities
06:29and no one assumes the obligation
06:33to guarantee the life of a population
06:36that has been profoundly affected.
06:43We have the possibility
06:45that every thing,
06:47all of the things that correspond to the Drummond
06:51are made,
06:52but there is a point,
06:53as I said,
06:53that there is a legal limit
06:56that is derived from the situation
06:57of the two other companies
06:59in which,
07:00simply, Drummond says
07:01it's not that I want
07:03it's that I can't do,
07:04it's that I can't do,
07:04I can't do,
07:05I can't do,
07:05I can't do,
07:05I can't do this.
07:06I have to do this.
07:07There are the resources
07:08in the FIDUCIA,
07:10according to those periods
07:12the resolution also said
07:14that they have to constitute
07:16a FIDUCIA
07:16with the resources
07:17of the three companies,
07:18but then,
07:19So, from the most small to the most complex, the Fiducia has to have an order, and that act has
07:27to go with the firm of the three companies.
07:30The CNR, in the actual situation, says, I can't confirm that because it's in a process of reorganization.
07:35And the Fiducia says, I can't pay. If I can only do two firms, I can't pay.
07:42And not because the Fiducia doesn't want, but because the law doesn't impede.
07:58The Fiducia has changed completely, but not for good, but for bad for this community.
08:10Because you can't catch, you can't fish, the river is full of pure carbon.
08:18And, in fact, the fish that you can catch, if you can catch some fish, it tastes a feo, pure
08:28CPM, gas.
08:33So, it's a fish that you can't consume.
08:37At the same time, the Fiducia has been waiting for 10 years.
08:42However, the 2nd of February of 2021, the Ministry of Environment and Development emit another resolution, the 0071,
08:50which determined that it wasn't necessary for the rest of this community,
08:54because it didn't exceed the maximum levels of contamination.
09:08The reasentment today has 10 years and the impact has been greater, because as we can see today,
09:14a minería inexistent, unos territorios ya deteriorados, unos recursos naturales escasos
09:21y una población afectada por el tema laboral también en vista de que dos de las empresas están paradas
09:28y un proceso de reasentamiento que se detiene también al igual por una de las empresas mineras.
09:33Y ese es el llamado que hacemos también al Gobierno Nacional, a la ANLA que pidió ese acto administrativo,
09:40de que se comience desde ya un plan de acción frente al tema de la seguridad alimentaria de la Comunidad
09:46de Boquerón
09:47y un reasercimiento al territorio, ya que estos impactos están en la 1525, página 45-46.
09:54El reasentamiento no se da por área fuente, el reasentamiento se da ya por unas afectaciones
09:59que ya estaban debido al otorgamiento de licencias ambientales que otorgó el mismo ministerio a esas empresas mineras.
10:08Gracias.
10:08Gracias.
10:21Gracias.
10:27Gracias.
10:35Gracias.
10:36Gracias.
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