(ANSA) – BOGOTÀ, OCTOBER 29 – The ombudsman of the department of Norte de Santander, in Colombia, has announced that the coca farmers who two days ago had surrounded and blocked, in a sort of kidnapping, 180 soldiers of the 2nd division of the army, they released them yesterday. This was reported by Radio Blu in Bogotà.
The initiative, the peasant associations of Tibu, in the Catatumbo region indicated, had decided to block the soldiers, belonging to six army platoons, in protest for the excessive rigor in the process of uprooting coca leaves in the plantations in the area. But now, it is learned, they have agreed to end their action.
The Ombudsman’s office, for its part, has confirmed that it intends to act as a guarantor for a possible dialogue between the farmers and the municipal, departmental and national authorities, to define a plan for the “gradual” uprooting of the leaves of coca.
A program, he clarified, which must go hand in hand with the agricultural replacement initiative to improve the living conditions of the local population. (HANDLE).
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