Paramo BS Translation follows indicating same old same old as far as a Paramo decision is coming. More useless meetings.
“With deep concern, the traditional miners' associations of Vetas (Santander) denounced that the Ministry of the Environment, headed by Minister Susana Muhamad, would be disregarding the Constitutional Court ruling that urged this ministry to delimit the Pramo de Santurbn.
According to Ivonne Gonzlez, spokesperson for Dignidad Minera, the minister is ignoring the agreements established and signed with the community, she has accommodated the decisions to her activist and political whims, and she would be breaking all legalities to put the political before the technical.
It must be remembered that since October 19, 2021, consensus meetings have been held with the active participation of community leaders, authorities and key stakeholders in the municipality.
The main objective has been to work together on the necessary agreements to carry out the delimitation of this important area of pramo”, affirms Gonzlez, spokesperson for the Dignidad Minera association, who also maintains that they are surprised today as Minambiente environment ignores the established agreements and the signing of the agreement.
For the leader, the new Ministry of the Environment, headed by Muhamad, "does not ignore the sentence, but accommodates it on a whim according to the claims they need or want." She adds that it is very worrying that the confidence that the paramunos had in the delimitation, specifically people from Vetas, has been lost.
More complaints
As denounced by these groups in a statement, after several conversations, in January 2022 the community of Vetas and the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development reached six agreements on the fundamental aspects established in Ruling T-361 of 2017 of the Constitutional Court. , referring to the delimitation of the Pramo de Santurbn.
“With what criteria does the Government, through the Ministry of the Environment, intend for the communities to attend the agreements? When on a whim the minister is the one who says if she agrees or if she is going to comply, skipping all legalities and putting the political over the technical. For us, what the environment ministry is doing is not complying with the agreement and managing everything on a whim without technical criteria,” Gonzlez said.
She adds that this is not only a mistake by the Ministry, but also by the national government, which, believing that they have the power, can bypass the Judiciary and ignore the Constitutional Court ruling.
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Call of attention
“The communities are going to explode. That is why nobody wants to exercise their right to environmental participation anymore, because nobody feels that there are guarantees. It is time for the magistrate to make determinations against the people who want to obstruct the delimitation of the wasteland, as well as for the minister who has earned contempt for a while."
According to a statement from traditional miners, the situation is so serious that the Attorney General's Office communicated through its Twitter account that the Pramo de Santurbn has a guardianship ruling that orders its participatory delimitation.
The term set by the Court at the time was one year, and five years have elapsed since the issuance of the judgment without the process having been completed.