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Gustavo Petro, leader of Human Colombia and main opponent of President Iván Duque, launched a harsh criticism against the National Government this Thursday morning for the management given to the indigenous minga and the growth in the country’s poverty rates.
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“They systematically murder 167 indigenous people and the President does not attend or listen to the indigenous people,” said Petro.
“Who is the president with? With the murderers or the murdered? What is the message that from the highest spheres of power is being delivered to Colombian society? “asked the political leader, who has said that he will run for the House of Nariño in the 2022 elections.
Precisely on the morning of this Thursday, a caravan with at least 5,000 indigenous people left Cali for the capital of the country.
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Your intention is to arrive to Bogotá to convey his message to the President of great concern about, among other issues, the murders against him.
Minga spokesmen have reiterated that their purpose is to be heard by the President because they do not see actions to stop crimes against members of their communities and are also seeking answers about plans related to the substitution of illicit crops.
The Interior Minister, Alicia Arango, insisted that the Government is willing to listen to the spokesmen and that is why it sent a special commission to Cali to analyze their requests. However, there was no agreement.
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In dialogue with Hour 20 of Snail RadioHermes Peté, senior counselor of the Indigenous Regional Council, warned that to the extent that this minga is political, they ask to speak only with President Duque; Well, he considers that they talk to the ministers all year round and that this is a request that was left over from last year’s minga.
He revealed on the station that the proposal for a meeting between President Duque and indigenous representatives came out of the CRIC for more than three months “the minister said in Caldono, she promised to create a route and deliver it to the president; but we are waiting. “
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Petro has been located on this shore and has said that the government is deaf to the cries of the indigenous people. A narrative that he has maintained since 2019. On that occasion, also with the indigenous minga, he encouraged them to travel to Bogotá:
“Faced with Duque’s snub, the indigenous movement must heal the fractures left in the society of the south of the country, building a historical bloc that brings its struggle to Bogotá. May the center of Bogotá be filled with crowds, that the nation be capable of minga, “he said on that occasion.
In a single year of government and without a pandemic, Duque sent a million people who were in the middle class into poverty
On another front, Petro criticized the President’s administration for the increase in poverty levels.
“In a single year of government and without there being a pandemic, Duque sent a million people who were in the middle class into poverty. It happened in 2019. By clinging to the dying economy of oil and coal, it left the country impoverished, just like in Venezuela, ”he said.
As reported, people living in poverty in Colombia increased by 661,890 last year, while those who are below the extreme poverty line added another 728,955, as Juan Daniel Oviedo, director of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane).
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This means that the Poverty in the country increased one percentage point in the last year, going from 34.7 percent in 2018 to 35.7 percent in 2019, which indicates that about 17.5 million people in the country were in that condition last year.
For its part, individuals living in extreme poverty in the country increased last year by about 729,000, which caused some 4.7 million people to find themselves in that situation, raising the indicator to 9.6 percent , from 8.2 percent in 2018, the Dane said.
For analysts, Petro raised his tone in response to former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez who has warned his followers of a possible arrival to power of the leftist leader.
In other words, the crossing of disqualifications and evaluations with quite strong expressions They correspond to the first of changes in a campaign that is predicted to be one of intense confrontation.
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In this case, Petro takes the voice of a concern that in reality overwhelms the entire society.
As EL TIEMPO said in its editorial this Thursday: “With all the more reason, the economic recovery plan, both of the National Government and of local administrations, must include measures and programs to mitigate these impacts, protect jobs and protect workers. most vulnerable in society. “
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