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Tarazá peasant protest: no solutions, only repression
After seven days of settlement in the municipality of Tarazá Coliseum (Antioquia), 1,500 farmers have been obtained from the State solution and have only seen the continuation of spraying glyphosate affect their food security, together with the continuity of the signs the Peasant Association of Bajo Cauca Antioquia (Asocbac). Therefore backbone tried to block the Atlantic this afternoon, receiving anti-riot police repression of Police (Esmad).
Responsible for their negligence in providing solutions for their action of repression against the Colombian state peasantry, headed by the Governor of Antioquia and the Municipality of Ttarazá.
We reject the threats received by our vice president Andres Henao Istman, who at 7:15 pm today received call Tarazá government secretary, who threatened that they would pay and among other things would sue.
We demand to re-engage, provide solutions and stop the signs on Asocbac.
demand
Compliance by the State of the agreements signed with us in Tarazá in March this year.
Stop the criminalization, harassment and signs to Asocbac and their leaders.
Materializing these agreements in specific social investment works:
a) Humanitarian aid supplies.
b) Investment in health centers veredales equipped for primary care and emergency department.
c) Provide rural schools in order to guarantee the right to education of our children, in conditions of free, quality and dignity.
d) Maintenance and adequacy of access roads to our paths.
e) production projects for the replacement arrangements with the community through Asocbac.
f) Cessation of the criminalization of artisanal mining activity and small, viable technical programs for environmental improvement.
g) Cease spraying with glyphosate.