The Government of Gustavo Petro moves to Guajira, the poorest department in the country where more than 5,000 indigenous children have died of hunger and thirst. The Colombian executive announced the creation of a university that will benefit indigenous communities, and the construction of a new airport. Focusing particularly on water scarcity and malnutrition of minors.
In an unprecedented act of government, the President of Colombia Gustavo Petro, Vice President Francia Márquez, all the ministers and affiliated entities moved their offices last week to the far north of the country: La Guajira, the poorest department in Colombia.
In La Guajira, the greatest water potential is used in palm crops. Secondly, in energy infrastructure to cool thermoelectric plants; and, the third option is human consumption, denounced the Colombian head of state during his government days in this department where more than five thousand indigenous children have died of hunger and thirst.
The Colombian executive also announced the creation of a university that will benefit the region’s indigenous communities, the construction of a new airport to promote sustainable tourism and a million-dollar investment to rescue the Manaure salt mines, the most important in the country but on the verge of bankruptcy, and whose reactivation will favor 3000 families generating 400 jobs
Susana Muhamad, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, highlights that the most important of these days called “Government with the people” were the strategic decisions that were made together with the local authorities and the indigenous leaders of the Wayuu peoples.
The minister explained to RFI that: It seeks to make a health reform in La Guajira that allows the arrival of health to the scattered territories of the Wayuu communities and progress in the Energy Transition Pact, as well as the installation of the Environmental Technical Table with the Wayuu people to the Ecological Restoration of La Guajira. La Guajira is the front line of the effects of climate change in the country and therefore this work process is absolutely necessary.
