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Title: Communities contract demand of the Americas Transversal
Publication Date: March 2011 Subject
;: Colombia, Human Rights
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Geographical area: Colombia, Panama border, Antioquia, Bolivar , Chocó, Córdoba, Magdalena, Sucre
, Cacarica, Urabá, Riosucio, Santa Maria del Darien, Turbo, Bocas de Atrato, La Balsa, Bojaya
Date of incident: 1996 - 2011.
contract demand Communities Section of the Americas
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is difficult to argue they do not know or knew. Cacarica is part of the forest reserve area of \u200b\u200bthe Pacific. Inhabited by the Embera guards figure and in the collective farms of African descent. Titled lands bordering the National Park Katíos, part of the biosphere and is regarded as a special protection of UNESCO.
Neither the Ministry of Transportation and the company know that the war there is alive. War became visible in 1996 has worsened since 2008. International and national media reported mobility and installation of the guerrilla groups on the border with Panama. 3 years has been known for bombings, deaths of soldiers and 57 guerrillas of the FARC-EP. Despite the continuing demobilization paramilitary operations with the regular troops of the brigade 17, as what was found witnesses. "The paramilitaries are not over."
Cacarica The inhabitants of forced displacement have 3 more than 80 crimes, which are found in impunity, continue to suffer the ignorance of their rights by extractive industries and infrastructure, such as the one selected by Andres Uriel Gallego as the executor of the Section of the Americas. This is another company of William Velez Sierra.
Vélez Sierra has been extradited appointed as one of its beneficiaries. It is a perverse dynamic gains that spoken of "Pitirri" and Mancuso himself. "We arrasábamos, other purchases and other legalized" In a congressional debate on the issue of land, Sierra Velez name came up as a beneficiary of land displaced by the paramilitaries. Also it has been referred to in the United States, some of the paramilitary commanders as one of the beneficiaries of the dispossession in Uraba and limits the Chocó.
De Velez argues that during the years of the Uribe government has been one of the big winners with multiple awards in roads and airports. One of them has been the highway "Route of the Sun." Within the press revelations Velez said that addressed the IDU, in a surreptitious manner to define areas for their companies with concessions Nule in 26 street in Bogota. Its companies make the works of the new airport El Dorado, through Odins
In the 8 years of government consolidated the business of waste recycling in northern Colombia and there is an investigation of the relationships in the same with Carlos Mario Jiménez, "Macaco", extradited to the United States.
... old-style paramilitary
In December 1996, paramilitaries raided the town of Riosucio in northern Choco by police and military of the 17th Brigade. Some Colombians were forced to clean the streets, and announced verbally and jackets in various places that "progress had been reached." Meanwhile, 4 people disappeared, which was buried in a grave in Santa Maria del Darien.
Weeks later, between 24 and 27 February 1997 Salaquí Cacarica and developed the "Operation Genesis" directed by the so-called "peace", General Rito Alejo del Rio Rojas. The background of this operation was announced with the same visionary words of "time of progress."
bombed, looted villages and killed Marino Lopez, a single African man home, without collective leadership was quartered and his head turned into a soccer ball, realized that progress, that they call development was a "blood and fire."
While most of the 23 communities uprooted in Turbo, Bocas de Atrato, and Panama, Maderas Darien / Pizano SA entered the collective territory Cacarica in the community of La Balsa, exploiting forest resources, protected and supported by paramilitaries. This was reported some media at the time, also from environmental and human rights, who for 3 years no one believed.
Today
exparamilitares versions and confirm that this drug was true. Failure to clarify the crimes committed there, as the paramilitaries became the raft in a major operations center in military and business protection. There are disappeared, tortured and murdered several people, including Edwin Salazar in 2001. From there he moved a contingent to Bojayá in May 2002 when he came up with the prolonged armed operation against the FARC-EP, which eventually killed at more than one hundred people. The place, as expressed by witnesses came famous vallenato groups, politicians now linked processes forward Justcia Supreme Court, local authorities and military brigade 17.
Subsequently, the block "Elmer Cárdenas" in command of Jhon Fredy Rendón presented the proposed agro-WAY, on land occupied and dispossessed people of African descent or where territorial control exercised military. In June 2001 the paramilitaries spoke of progress in a raid on the settlement where the displaced returned Cacarica. They expressed that they should return to their farms, to plant palm and coca, returned to say that it was time to progress.
Indeed in land dispossessed, the gunmen got into the raft, a proposal by the agribusiness International Trading Ltd. Multifruits agribusiness model began in the same land that the timber company deforested. Through the trading Germain Monsalve, Rendón Herrera's family signed a contract with the U.S. Del Monte. Monsalve is now in the United States prosecuted for drug trafficking. Another member of the board, to hear public complaints from NGOs, vanished. This is Juan Manuel Campo Eljah, nephew of the former director of Incoder during the Uribe government.
Following an international media report, the directors of the company were forced into hiding, as was the demobilization of the "German." As pointed Riosucio settlers here were also submitted false positive demobilization. Youth, women were recruited in a few weeks to submit demobilized and the public as Multifruits Ltd. company, change of facade. Although there left demobilized qe never been made by Social Action, neither by Coda or by the office of High Commissioner, Luis Carlos Restrepo. Here were not to be in the region as a legacy of that progress agribusiness. This chapter is no judicial inquiry paraeconomía thoroughly.
The Pan American Section of the Americas or
On January 15 as stated by the National Institute of Concessions INCO began the period for the development of previous studies during one year form the basis of a work intended for a period of 7 years. The work performed by the concessionaire of the Americas SAS routes, in which William Velez, is chief architect, will culminate with the construction of the bridge crossing, across the river Atrato from Leoncito to the town of Puente America.
On 6 August, a day before President Uribe leave office in a controversial decision by the National Institute of Concessions INCO, held the contract dealer 008 Ways of SAS Americas "building rehabilitation, expansion, improvement and conservation, as the Cross Road Project of the Americas and the preparation of studies and final designs, the land management, social management and environmental management, procurement and / or modification of environmental permits, financing, operation and the maintenance of facilities in the Corridor 'Section of the Americas Sector 1' called Caribbean Corridor [1]
the contract specifies that the licensee may use for commercial or advertising concession assets , real estate (including buildings for accession or accession )"... "And you can usually commercially exploit the entire Corridor delivered by INCO in the terms and conditions expressly provided under this contract, particularly in the technical appendix and the applicable law. To this end, the dealer can make unlimited advertising other than road safety, tourism and commercial developments where road safety and permits. "[2] The concessionaire has the exclusive right to commercial exploitation of the entire corridor, Area of \u200b\u200binfluence is the project "between the departments of Córdoba, Chocó, Antioquia, Sucre, Magdalena and Bolivar" - [3]
More than roads, a windfall.
One of the complexity of the contract is the denial of opportunities to use and enjoy their own territory. black communities in Section 1.02. the Contract, the Dealer gave Inco, property by law can not be transferred, because it is collective title of black communities. The commercialization of the territories is part of the business goals of Vélez Sierra. In a private document of Shareholders of August 5, 2010, entered the same day under number 01403918 of the 9th book in which it was Inland commercial society of the Americas called SAS [4] Thus, in addition to construction, engineering studies, design, infrastructure, architecture, Section of the Americas. seeks to "exploit all the assets of the concession in that sector, according to the provisions of the concession contract ..." [5] also one of the clauses exclude participation in the operation of tolls and "resources commercial collects for commercial exploitation "understood as advertising, marketing, tourism and others. [6]
Regarding the Chocó, the project develops only in the lower Atrato area, sector of collective title Cacarica. The territory indefeasible, inalienable and inenagenable of Law 70 is denied in this contract. Indeterminate area? Extensions are given to companies that are parrt df Concession.
For Afro-Colombians, in practice it is an appropriation of the territories of these communities who were forcibly displaced. At this time, in the midst of armed conflict, the contract, as the formulation concerns, it also means an expropriation to the territories of black communities of Cacarica, an assignment of state to employers.
The background described above, the continuity of internal war, denial of rights to prior consultation, the need to understand the environmental impacts before starting the work and the need for communities to be heard on his thinking and proposals in front of the concession, has forced them to perform a series of administrative, constitutional and even criminal. The only hope that it is possible to make them realize that human beings live Cacarica multiple ecosystems so that these rights are protected and recognized.
who have been wronged in the recent past from "Genesis" and irretrievably and irreparably affected, if not achieved sustainable commitment to make an environmental justice, social justice, this is another record. Just for that!, To never say, they did not know that there are Afro-Colombians and many operations behind operations are criminals, corrupt and privileged during the Uribe administration.
already instituted criminal charges and will produce new civil, administrative and constitutional challenges to the chain of corruption.
Commission for Justice and Peace
Notes
already instituted criminal charges and go to produce new civil, administrative and constitutional challenges to the chain of corruption.
Notes
[ 1 ] Republic of Colombia, Ministry of Transport, National Institute of Concessions INCO, Contract Award 2010 from No 008: National Institute of Concessions Grantor INCO, Grantee: Way of the Americas SAS Bogotá, August 6, 2010
[ 4 ] Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá, Certificate of Existence and Legal Represetación or registration documents, Ways of SAS Americas, November 24, 2010, p.1
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