Peasants Displaced by the Quimbo Dam Defend their Crops from the State´s Destructive Forces

On Tuesday, September 24th, riot police (ESMAD) initiated unannounced forced removals (making them illegal) of local inhabitants impacted by the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project in Huila, Colombia. Members of the Association of Peoples Affected by the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project (ASOQUIMBO) and the collective Jaguos por el Territorio were injured as the removals commenced in the area of La Jagua.

The removals started in the farms of La Virginia, Utica, Guipa, Guacas and the Olivos in the Municipality of Altamira with the detention of Alexander Naranjo and other locals being beaten and shot with “non-lethal” projectiles including a ASOQUIMBO member who uses a wheelchair. The illegal forced removals have continued into this week with the farms Palacio and Santiago in the Municipality of Garzón and starting Ocober 1st in Honda in the Municipality of Gigante. Over a hundred local residents have been living and working these lands for over five months since the liberation of these lands illegally bought by the construction company Emgeas-Endesa-Enel.  

Prior to the removals, the peasants who have been growing corn, yuca, beans, squash and other crops on these vacant lands presented the Mayor of Altamira the legal status of their case. As the removals continue the police are also using heavy machinery to destroy the crops that local residents have been growing for their subsistence. Representative from the President´s Program of Human Rights, Fabiola Castillo Reina, who is the contact person for the community impacted by the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project, stated that she was incapable of doing anything to intervene and protect the rights of the impacted communities. Since then she has not answered her telephone or returned calls from the community members.

The peasants who have worked these lands for generations for their subsistence were left unemployed and displaced by the company and the state that has consistently refused to recognize their rights. While some local inhabitants were included in the census of the impacted population, the majority have not been recognized as an impacted population.

On August 23, 2012, the Comptrollers Office of the Republic published a report that was sent to the Ministry of Environment, National Authority of Environmental Licenses, the Attorney General and the Ombudsman´s Office soliciting immediate action regarding the “census conducted by the company Emgesa of the impacted population of the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project”. The Comptroller´s Office found “major errors in the way the census was conducted and how the affected population was identified. Many individuals and families were left out of the census that meet the requisites to be included in the census and given indemnization”. The conclusion of the report was that the “census must be re-opened and corrected to include the excluded, impacted population”.    

Nonetheless, the company continues to misinform the public and local media on their webiste, calling the local residents “invaders” and refusing to acknowledge their illegal acquistition of these lands. On June 14, 2011 the Ministry of Environment, through Resolution 1096, placed preventive measures on the Emgesa-Endesa-Enel for causing displacement and unemployment of the local population. Regardless, this same entity lifted this preventive measure based on reports from the company that were never verified by any agents of the Ministry of the Environment. On November 29, 2011, the Ministry issued Administrative Act 0123 that required the company to “allow the permanence of local inhabitants to continue working these lands,” requiring the company to “restitute local economic activity” as stated in the project´s environmental license.

Emgesa-Endesa-Enel shamelessly continues to mock the impacted communities and the entities of the State and continues to purchase lands, displace local residents and destroy the local economy and social fabric. The complicity of the Colombian State with the multinational corporations is evident in that the National Authority of Environmental licenses which is the institution in charge of maintaining the “legality” of resource extraction projects and that responsible companies comply with their project´s environmental licenses.   

Actions of solidarity are being asked for by media, human rights organizations, and the general public in the denouncement of the trampling of the dignity and human rights of the people of the department of Huila in this latest episode where the Colombian State has shown itself to be an accomplice and at the service of the interests of the company Emgesa-Endesa-Enel.

Local contacts (Spanish-speaking):

Jennifer Chavarro Quino. 3147891727

Alexander Naranjo.   3204633118

Zoila María Ninco     3213243344

Don Francisco Castro   3134025817

Campesinos desplazados por El Quimbo defienden sus cultivos de la fuerza destructiva del Estado

Iniciando en la mañana del martes 24 de octubre,  en el Municipio de Altamira, Huila, y acogidos por el Amparo Policial de Emgesa-Endesa-Enel interpuesto ante el alcalde encargado, la policía anti disturbios (ESMAD) inicio el desalojo violento de las tierras liberadas por las personas afectadas por el Proyecto Hidroeléctrico El Quimbo (ASOQUIMBO). Integrantes de ASOQUIMBO y el colectivo Jaguos por el Territorio fueron gravemente heridos hoy, en un uso desmedido de la fuerza por parte del ESMAD hacia los y las campesinos presentes. La semana del 30 de agosto los desalojas siguen en las fincas de la zona de Majo en el Municipio de Garzón y en La Honda en el Municipio de Gigante. 

Alexander Naranjo, un campesino de la Jagua fue detenido, esposado y aislado; posteriormente fue puesto en libertad. Los procedimientos excesivos del ESMAD fueron evidentes según muestra el  maltrato a la integridad física del campesino Don Luis, el uso de proyectiles y el uso de maquinaria pesada para arrasar con los cultivos de las personas trabajando la tierra. En la zona hay más de 100 campesinos que han recuperado tierras para el cultivo y producción de alimentos, luego de que  fueran compradas e inutilizadas por Emgesa.

Previo a este injusto desalojo, los campesinos habían presentado a la Alcaldesa y al Personero  de Altamira la verificación de los casos.  También se  habían propuesto justificaciones para ocupar los predios la Virginia,  Utica, Guipa, Guapas y Olivos, en el Municipio de Altamira.  Como garante del ejercicio se propuso el Programa Presidencial de Derechos Humanos, en cabeza de la Dra. Fabiola Castillo Reina, quien coordina la Estrategia de "Gobernanza" para la protección  de los derechos de los Afectados por El Quimbo. Sin embargo,  la Dra Fabiola, se declaró impotente para intervenir, y desde que comenzó el desalojo no responde al teléfono.

Tras la recuperación de la tierras, los campesinos las han cultivado para su sustento diario,  ya que la Multinacional los dejó desempleados y el Estado ha desconocido sus derechos. Algunos de los campesinos están reconocidos en los censos de Emgesa, otros no. Sin embargo, la Contraloría General de República, CGR, ya ha comprobado que los censos deben complementarse puesto que se realizaron al acomodo de la Empresa.

La CGR mediante Oficio de Agosto 23 de 2012, presentó el informe final obtenido en desarrollo de la “Denuncia de Participación Ciudadana -Censo Desarrollado por Emgesa sobre los Beneficiarios del Proyecto Hidroeléctrico El Quimbo, y anunció el “envío de comunicación al Ministerio del Medio Ambiente, Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales, Defensoría del Pueblo, Procuraduría General de la Nación, para que se tomen las acciones inmediatas al Censo practicado por Emgesa”.  El ente de control encontró graves fallas en el censo de Emgesa realizado para identificar la población afectada por el proyecto.  Se excluyeron numerosas personas y familias impactadas, que cumplen con las condiciones para ser indemnizadas y censadas, concluyendo que ¨el censo continua abierto y que existen herramientas para corregirlo”.

 
 A pesar de esto, la empresa Emgesa-Endesa-Enel continua desinformando  a la opinión pública mediante comunicados de prensa, su sitio de internet, y por medio de sus  redes sociales, tales como twitter. La empresa se empecina en calificar a los campesinos como  “invasores” de sus propias tierras ancestrales, y  se niega a reconocer que su adquisición de esas tierras fue ilegal y mal habida. Es necesario recordar  que el 14 de Junio del año 2011, el Ministerio de Ambiente mediante res. 1096 interpuso medida preventiva a  Emgesa-Endesa-Enel por el desplazamiento y  pérdida de empleo que  generaba con la compra de predios.  Sin embargo, esta misma autoridad con base en un documento elaborado por la propia compañía constructora y sin ninguna verificación de campo con las comunidades afectadas, levantó las medidas preventivas a través del acto administrativo 0123 del 29 de Noviembre del 2011, bajo el supuesto un “comodato reestructurado que permitía la permanencia de los campesinos en las tierras”, por medio del cual la empresa estaba  en la obligación de restituir la actividad productiva, tal como lo exige la licencia ambiental. En descarado irrespeto a la  vigencia de dicha medida preventiva, Emgesa-Endesa-Enel sigue burlándose de las comunidades afectadas y de las  instituciones del Estado, pues continua con la compra de predios y desplazando a  campesinos. Es evidente la complicidad del Estado Colombiano con las corporaciones transnacionales. La Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales es la encargada de configurar la normatividad para aparentar la “legalidad” en la realización de los proyectos minero- energéticos.
 

Solicitamos la Solidaridad de los medios de Comunicación, Organizaciones de Derechos Humanos y Ciudadanía para denunciar este atropello contra la dignidad y los derechos humanos de los Huilenses, en este nuevo episodio en que el Estado muestra estar al servicio de los intereses de Emgesa-Endesa-Enel.

En el lugar de los acontecimientos pueden contactar a:

Jennifer Chavarro Quino. 3147891727

Alexander Naranjo.   3204633118

Zoila María Ninco     3213243344

Don Francisco Castro   3134025817

ASOQUIMBO in Boston -- ASOQUIMBO en Boston

Colombia Vive 2013 Fall Speaking Tour 

El Quimbo Hydroelectric Dam and Its Human Rights Impacts 

Featured Guest Speaker: 

Miller Dussán Calderón 

University of Southern Colombia, Professor and Human Rights Defender 

(PhD, Sociology and Education) 

In 2008 the Colombian government, through the National Economic and Social Policy Council (CONPES), authorized the construction of several hydroelectric dams in various regions of the country and simultaneously arranged financing for the system. One such dam is planned for the Quimbo region, a territory that is home to more than 300,000 inhabitants who for many years have organized themselves in community cooperatives that produce an estimated $18.5 million USD annually. Furthermore, the region boasts 842 hectares of riparian forest, many fish species essential to the inhabitants’ food sovereignty, over 100 species of birds, and numerous species of reptiles and mammals in danger of extinction.

The construction of the Quimbo Dam would cover over 8,500 hectares, more than half of which is productive farmland, and would flood six municipalities, mostly located in a protected Forest Reserve in the Amazon and the Colombian Massif. At the same time, it would displace more than half of the population of the Quimbo region. Thus, the con-struction of the hydroelectric dam poses a grave humanitarian crisis for the region and a major environmental disaster.

Confronted by what seems an overwhelming catastrophe for their communities, El Quimbo inhabitants established the Association of People Affected by the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project (ASOQUIMBO), a grassroots organization  that defends the civil, political, economic, social, cultural and environmental interests of the territory.

During his US tour, Professor Dussán Calderón will describe the actions that the local com-munity and ASOQUIMBO have taken to prevent the disaster that the construction of the hydroelectric dam poses to the region, and offer ideas about what we in the US can do to help. You can also hear Prof. Calderón at these venues in the Boston area:

Sun, 9/22, 12:00-1:00 pm, Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston

Tues, 9/24, 10:00 am, WUNR-1600 AM, Radio Internat’l, “Magacin,” w/ William Pena Lopera

Tuesday, 9/24, 7:00-9:00 pm, MIT, Main Building, 77 Mass Ave, Rm 1-246

Wednesday, 9/24, 10:00 am, WUNR-1600 AM, Radio Internat’l, “Magacin,” w/ William Pena Lopera

Thurs, 9/26, 2:00 pm, “Human Rights in Latin America”, UMass/Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd

Fri, 9/27, 9:30-10:50 am, Salem State Univ., Sullivan Bldg 209 (corner of Lafayette & Loring)

Fri, 9/27, 6:00 pm, Encuentro 5, 9 Hamilton Place, Suite 2A, Boston

Sat, 9/28, 1:00-4:00, Casa El Salvador, 46 Bennington St, East Boston 

Eventos internacionales en solidaridad con ASOQUIMBO - International Solidarity events with ASOQUIMBO

ASOQUIMBO en Nueva York -- ASOQUIMBO in NYC

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Presentación del documental "El Gigante" en Madrid, España

ASOQUIMBO Continues Land Liberations and Resistance to the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project

Original: Upside Down World

It has already been four months since the Association of Affected Peoples of the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project (ASOQUIMBO) began liberating the lands which are not destined to be inundated by the impending reservoir, but that are nonetheless properties of the company responsible for the mega-project, Emgesa-Endesa-Enel. These liberations started with farms in the Municipality of Altamira and spread quickly to include other farms in Garzón - such as the Santiago and Palacios farms. There are peasant families affected by the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project who are working and cultivating these lands, growing crops such as corn, plantains, yuca, beans, squash, and herding cattle. “Even though we have had our challenges, we the people affected by the Quimbo Dam have liberated these lands belonging to the transnational company as part of the struggle for the Agro-Nutritional Peasant Reserve that we need for our territory,” explained Mauricio Cabrera, a member of ASOQUIMBO from La Jagua in the Department of Huila.
 

The company and the National Authority of Environmental Licenses (ANLA) have done everything possible not to comply with the environmental license and have chosen to not respect the decrees released by the Ombudsman’s Office in favor of the communities impacted by this mega-project, such as reopening the census of the impacted population. Regardless, the liberation of land by the impacted population is only an initial attempt to meet the obligations that the company itself has to “re-establish and legally and legitimately restore all productive activities, food security, and the right to a dignified life and work” for all the area's population. The land liberations are not land invasions; they are needed actions taken to guarantee a dignified life for the impacted population and to protect the region’s food sovereignty, a requisite clearly delineated in the environmental license.

In June, the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH), that previously had sanctioned Emgesa-Endesa-Enel for the destruction of archeological remains, has now decided that the company is the responsible entity for the creation of a museum in the impacted area of the Quimbo Dam, subsequently taking control and possession of the remains of the region’s ancestors. In the meantime, the company contracted archeologists from the National University in Bogota to perform an archeological survey of the region impacted by the Quimbo Dam. ASOQUIMBO rejected this immediately. Members of Jaguos por el Territorio documented the archeologists during their survey in La Jagua as they were plundering human bones and ceramics from tombs that they found. In a meeting with the community, the archeologists and a representative from the company referred to the remains as “trash” and confirmed the planned destruction of the sacred petroglyphs in the area of the trenches and are insultingly proposing the creation of a replica.

On August 14 the Municipal Council of Garzón organized a debate between the company Emgesa and ASOQUIMBO. After a presentation from council members, during which the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project’s environmental license and the company’s obligations were reviewed point by point, ASOQUIMBO and the company were able to state their case. What was shown, as has been said for some time now, is that the company has not met with any of their requirements and that the Ministry of Environment has not obligated the company to do so. Accordingly, the council members rejected the Plan of Territorial Order (POT) and have formally requested that the Ministry of Environment immediately suspend the hydroelectric project until the company complies with the environmental license in its entirety.

On August 19 a national agrarian strike commenced that initially had its strongest participation in the Departments of Boyacá, Cundinamarca, and Nariño, which were initially received by the national government to dialogue. Initially left out, other Departments such as Huila, Caquetá, Tolima, Putumayo and Cauca over a week ago strengthened the region´s blockades completely  paralyzing all of South Colombia. Residents of Huila were not only protesting for support and subsidies from the national government as a result of the free trade agreement with the U.S., they were also protesting against many other injustices: the lack of commitment on behalf of the national government’s agreements with coffee growers during this year's strike; the privatization of seeds, through Resolution 9.70 of the free trade agreement with the USA, that has had a particularly devastating impact on the rice growers of Campoalegre; the impacts of other transnational companies in Huila, such as the oil company Emerald Energy, operating in the Municipalities of Gigante and Garzón; and the rage at the company Hydrochina, that has been given the entire Magdalena River as part of the Master Plan of Appreciation of the Magdalena River.

On August 20, the fisher-people and their families who subsist from the Betania Reservoir (Municipalities of Hobo, Campoalegre, and Yaguara) occupied the main park and City Hall of Hobo with their canoes and cast nets, demanding their rights. A year ago the city's comptroller’s office found that the fisher-people were not included as part of the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project’s impacted population and ordered that they be included in a new survey as impacted peoples. To date, the company has done nothing to recognize any of the peoples that depend on the fisheries of Betania.

A fisherman, Julio Cleves Cuellar, explained, “the construction of the Quimbo Dam, with its constant slick of oil, gasoline, grease, and other chemicals that are mixed in with the cement and used to make the dam, in conjunction with the area’s deforestation has polluted the river. The majority of fish have now died.”

From September 3-6 about 60 members of ASOQUIMBO effectively blockaded three entrances of the construction site of the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project in the area of Paso del Colegio in the Municipalities of Gigante and Tesalia causing losses for the companies involved. Peasants and fisher-people allowed free movement of the local population, ambulances, the police, and military, but blocked all traffic related to the Dam’s construction site. Blocking the company’s access to the Magdalena River, local inhabitants were able to paralyze all the sand and rock extraction activities that have devastated the areas ecosystems and fisher-peoples encampments.

On September 5, at around 8 p.m., a humanitarian caravan of about 20 vehicles escorted by the police arrived to the blockade in transit to the south of the Department with food, natural gas, and other goods brought from the City of Neiva. ASOQUIMBO members explained to the caravan that each vehicle would be inspected and all the vehicles that were taking goods to the communities would be allowed pass but any going to the Dam’s construction site would be sent back. In the town of Tesalia a pickup truck, a food truck, and two fuel trucks that had been sent back days prior infiltrated the caravan.Each vehicle was looked over by a blockade member and was given pass upon seeing the food or other goods that were being brought for the region’s inhabitants. All of this was going smoothly until the vehicles that were destined for the construction site. When ASOQUIMBO members intended to stop and send back these vehicles certain members of the police became aggressive with community members insulting, threatening with arms and pushing people out of the way escalating what was a peaceful vehicle check at a roadblock into violence. Police from Neiva started firing tear gas canisters into the people and two women were physically assaulted by the police. A member of the Jaguos pro el Territorio collective that was filming the occurrences received a tear canister to the right thigh from about 6 meters of distance. As members of ASOQUIMBO defended themselves from the police attack the caravan was able to push through the tear gas and the vehicles that were believed to be going to the company in fact did while the rest continued to the town of Gigante.

During the incident it was apparent the differences amongst the police agents of Tesalia and those of Neiva - the agents from Tesalia criticizing how they handled the situation expressing that they "fucked up bad." Not long after private security agents of the company made shots in the air with an automatic weapon. Hours later the police arrived saying they were "sorry" that the situation was "not handled correctly" and were asking for permission to allow the return of some of the transit police from Tesalia that had been accompanying the caravan. Because of the incident ASOQUIMBO told the police, with backing from a local military official, that they would only allow an injured police officer to be brought through in an ambulance, but the rest of the police who were in the caravan would have to wait till the following morning to decide if they could. For hours the Transit Police representative that had come from Neiva after the incident insisted to allow the passing of the other police and even threatened while smiling that "they had the means to get them through if you all say no". At 4 AM the police and a tow truck were allowed to pass after an ambulance came to take care of the injured members of ASOQUIMBO.

ASOQUIMBO impide el desarrollo de la construcción en el Proyecto hidroeléctrico el Quimbo durante el Paro Nacional Agrario

Regiones del sur de Colombia como el Huila, Caquetá, Putumayo, Cauca y Tolima cumplieron  más de una semana de estar completamente paralizado por los bloqueos del Paro Agrario Nacional y Popular en Colombia.  El domingo por la noche, el Vice-presidente Argelino Garzón anunció un acuerdo con delegados de la Mesa Nacional, MIA que incluyó a campesinos de los departamentos del sur donde se levantaron  la  mayoría de bloqueos mientras que se adelantan diálogos en la ciudad de Popayán. No todos los bloqueos se han levantado en el Huila, Caquetá  y en otras regiones donde los campesinos e indígenas se mantienen firmes en contra las políticas del tratado de libre comercio y la locomotora minero-energética.

Del 3 al 6 de septiembre aproximadamente 60 integrantes de la Asociación de Afectados por el Proyecto Hidroeléctrica El Quimbo – ASOQUIMBO, efectivamente bloquearon tres entradas de la zona de construcción de la Hidroeléctrica,  impidiendo que la obra funcione en esa capacidad total durante este tiempo. Durante el bloqueo los campesinos y campesinas permitían el tránsito normal de los habitantes locales, ambulancias y la fuerza pública por la vía nacional en el sector del Paso del Colegio en los municipios de Gigante y Tesalia;  bloqueando solamente el acceso a varios sectores de la obra. Lo que  incluyó el taponamiento a la entrada principal y el acceso al río Magdalena de donde se explota las playas para extracción de material de construcción.  Lo que representó una grave parálisis en las obras  y una cuantiosa pérdida económica para la transnacional. 

Durante el bloqueo los integrantes del mismo, convivieron pacíficamente con los militares que están ubicados en el sector. Sin embargo,   vieron como la seguridad privada de la transnacional Emgesa-Endesa-Enel y la policía continuamente amenazaba y hostigaba  a los hombres, mujeres, mayores, jóvenes, niños y niñas en el sector.  En cambio al bloquear la obra los integrantes permitieron que los trabajadores salieran siempre respetándolos sin insultos y ni  agresiones.  El primer día del bloqueo la empresa intentó entrar dos carro-tanques de combustible, pero los integrantes del bloqueo,  respetuosamente aclararon a los choferes de esos vehículos que no podían entrar y fueron obligados regresar a Tesalia después de un intento de regar su carga de ACPM en la carretera y así intentar  culpar a las personas del bloqueo.

El jueves 05 de septiembre sobre las 8:00 de la noche llegó una caravana de aproximadamente 20 vehículos escoltados por la policía de Neiva y Tesalia llevando víveres, gas y otros productos al sur del Departamento. Cuando llegaron al bloqueo la caravana fue detenida y se les explicó a todas las personas en la caravana que todos los vehículos que iban al sur tenían paso  después de una breve inspección pero que cualquier vehículo que estaba destinado para la obra de construcción de la Hidroeléctrica sería  detenida y regresado. El comienzo todo estaba sucediendo pacíficamente y cada camión que mostró su carga y todos los vehículos de la policía se estaba dando el paso. Más o menos en la mitad de la caravana estaba infiltrado una camioneta, dos carro-tanques y un camión que iban a la obra de construcción.

En el intento de detener estos vehículos la policía y un agente del SIJIN vestido de civil de Neiva asumió una agresividad con las personas empujándolos, gritándolos e insultándolos.   La Policía daba órdenes a los choferes de los vehículos de “pasar por encima de esos hijueputas” y escalando una situación calmada a una de agresión y violencia. Cuando el primer carro-tanque se echó encima del bloqueo de personas que intentaba detenerlo, la Policía de Neiva  disparó gases lacrimógenos hacia las personas además de dos mujeres que fueron golpeadas por los miembros de la fuerza pública. Un integrante del colectivo Jaguos por el Territorio que estaba grabando en video los hechos fue lesionado por un cilindro de gas lacrimógeno que fue disparando de una distancia de seis metros impactando a su muslo derecho.  Por medio de los gases y la violencia la caravana siguió y al cruzar el puente del Paso del Colegio los vehículos que se sospechaban que iban a entrar a la empresa hicieron arbitrariamente eso;  mientras que los de más siguieron a Gigante.
 

Durante los hechos fue notable el desacuerdo entre la misma Policía que los agentes de Tesalia no concordaban de ninguna manera con la conducta con la Policía de Neiva que en las palabras de los de Tesalia expresaron: “la cagaron feo”. Poco tiempo después de este atropello la seguridad privada de la empresa amenazó los integrantes del bloqueo,  haciendo disparos al aire con una metralleta uzi. Horas después llegó un policía de tránsito, “disculpándose” por los hechos y pidiendo permiso para permitir el regreso de las motocicletas y la grúa de la Policía, que solo acompañaba la caravana hasta Gigante. Dados los hechos, ASOQUIMBO indicó que los agentes debían esperar hasta la mañana siguiente, exceptuando un agente que se accidentó en la moto, para que fuera atendido por una ambulancia. Incluso un militar del sector corroboró que era mejor esperar hasta mañana. En varias oportunidades que negamos el permiso de paso, el Policía de tránsito respondía amenazante diciendo que “tenían la manera de sacarlos si decíamos que no”. A las 4:00 de la mañana del día siguiente se dejó pasar a las motos y a la grúa, luego de que una ambulancia viniera a atender a los integrantes lesionados de ASOQUIMBO.

Los bloqueos del Paro se han levantado en algunas partes del Huila y el resto del país, pero el Paro Agrario Nacional y la lucha de la población afectada por la construcción del Proyecto hidroeléctrico El Quimbo, la extracción de la petrolera Emerald Energy en el Páramo de Miraflores y el Plan Maestro de Aprovechamiento del río Magdalena aún sigue. Las poblaciones impactadas por la locomotora minera-energética y las políticas neoliberales del Estado no se dejaran arrancar su existencia tan fácil. Si el gobierno nacional no asume una posición que respete la dignidad y las necesidades de la población rural, que es la columna vertebral de este país;  los pueblos seguirán luchando y presionado a un Estado que impone políticas que están destruyendo la Tierra y las comunidades que subsisten de ella.