Editorial
The rulers of the department of Caldas
For years they have used qualifiers to make conflicts invisible, dispositions and tensions in the territory; under qualifications such as “first department with eradication of crops for illicit use”, “first department without antipersonnel mines”, “model security department, “without the presence of armed groups”, “best nursery in the country”, With these pronouncements they have hidden the realities of the department; just to exemplify, We will use Magdalena Caldense as an example., In the previous months there were three suicides in the municipality of La Dorada and two of these suicides were men hanging from a rope, on a stick next to educational centers, outdoors, were they actually suicides?
Leaves a lot to think about, having rivers, bridges and canyons; The previous year, people were found dead in this same municipality in hotels and residences, but at the time of “clarification” they were crimes of passion. The week before, in just three days, on the borders between La Dorada, Norcasia, La Danta and Sonsón, Three people are murdered in La Dorada, two people in Norcasia, a social leader in La Danta and another person in La Dorada, who promoted invasions of families in some lands in the region. That is to say, a massacre!!!
For the authorities
despite territorial limits, They are isolated events. The deaths add up for each municipality, They are distributed like a cake, just as the bodies still go down the river, so that they do not add to the death statistics of the region and little recover them.
Not knowing the context and territorial realities
they make Magdalena Caldense's underlying problems worsen, are located on the territorial borders, make the problems of illegality not only remain, but rather globalize; While poverty is localized and the hundreds of young people in the region continue to be the cannon fodder of the actors that today "are not called armed groups, but criminal gangs or unorganized groups.”.
Hide the realities of this region, leads to the fact that the focus is never on the communities, How do you explain Caldas, with municipalities like Samaná, with a 95% of its population victims of the armed conflict, PDET was not recognized (Municipality with Development Programs with a Territorial Approach)?, how do they 4 municipalities of Magdalena Caldense with the 52% of the total number of people considered missing in Caldas do not appear in the strategic peace programs of the national order, nor departmental?
I wish for total peace, be the possibility of the elected rulers, to look for solutions to the structural problems of Magdalena Caldense, to name massacres, femicides, juvenicidios, reconfiguration of illegal structures, illegal mining, social inequality and poverty.
The richness of a territory also lies in the possibility of naming its realities and events..
