A young Venezuelan woman is threatened for denouncing environmental problems - Other Cities - Colombia

For having denounced an environmental crisis registered in a neighborhood of the city of Riohacha, which has been affecting the inhabitants for several years, a Venezuelan migrant received death threats.

María Pineda, who has been living in the El Manantial neighborhood for five years, through a video published on her social networks denounced on September 5 an environmental problem.

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Rainwater stagnation

which is generated by the rainwater stagnation on Carrera 27 with Calle 15, forming an immense lagoon that affects mobility, preventing free vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

Two days after the complaint, Mayor José Ramiro Bermúdez and the secretary of works visited this sector to review this situation and announced the completion of a project that is in the pre-contractual stage.

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Five months later, and given that the waters changed color, becoming an intense green, ‘Chan chan’, as the victim is known, decided to make another video on February 5 recalling the situation and the visit by the authorities, assuring that the cases of dengue increased and the issue remained the same.

She immediately received a text message “Chan, chan, stop making videos to stir up the hornet’s nest here in Riohacha Veneca… solve your country, go with your girlfriend, something could happen to you, take care of yourself in the motico.”

They offered money for an attempt on his life.

I have been creating the same social content for five years about what is wrong in Riohacha and how we can improve. But this year that we are precisely in politics was that this affected someone

Through his Facebook account, he made the threat public “Who is it that one holds responsible when they threaten him? I cannot believe that because she is a veneca, that Riohacha hurts, she has to receive these types of threats.”

What he did not imagine was that someone close to him warned him to be careful, already in another sector of the city, in the Dividivi neighborhood, they were offering a good sum of money for an attempt on his life, “rumors from the neighborhood 10 bars for shooting you”, points to the message.

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This Thursday he will file the complaints with the competent authorities, noting that he does not know who is behind these threats.

“I have been creating the same social content for five years about what is wrong in Riohacha and how we can improve. But this year that we are precisely in politics was that this affected someone, ”he maintains.

Mayor rejects threats

We had closed the budget, we did not have the powers of the council to be able to contract this type of works and we are ready to comply with the legal procedures and contract complementary works…

Regarding the threats, Mayor José Ramiro Bermúdez assured that “we reject any act of violence and threat against the life of Mrs. María Pineda.”

He explained that the contract was awarded for 150 million pesos, but on the other hand there is a problem with a channel that must be cleaned and requires sedimentation work in about three blocks, so they decided to do a single job, so as not to move the problem to another sector.

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“We had just closed the budget, we did not have the powers of the council to be able to contract this type of works and we are ready to comply with the legal procedures and contract the complementary works in the other sector, that is why we have not been able to move forward,” said the president.

Bermúdez assures that in approximately one month the issue of hiring could be resolved to start the execution of these works, if the legal terms allow it.

Eliana Mejia Ospino
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