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The threat that haunts the peace seats in the Caribbean - Congress - Elections 2022

The victims of the country’s armed conflict see in the Special Transitory Circumscriptions of Peace (CTEP) the opportunity to achieve political participation, in addition to making visible the tragedy that they have lived through for years in their territories.

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That is why for the communities and social organizations, of victims and peasants, these peace seats are the space to obtain political representation in The congress that allows them to mark out resources that help their territories.

“It is a way to restore the full exercise of their political, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights,” he says. Luis Trejos Rosero, teacher-researcher from the Universidad del Norte Luis Trejo, PhD in American Studies, and director of the UNCaribe Thought Center Observatory.

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It is a way to restore the full exercise of their political, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights”

In one of his recent texts, Trejo in the company of his colleague Reynell Badillo, in which they analyze the risks of peace seats in the Caribbean, recalls that in 2017 the Congress of the Republic established that 167 municipalities in the country would host the 16 constituencies. Of these, 40 are in the Caribbean region, located specifically in the departments of Bolivar, Sucre, Cesar, La Guajira, Magdalena, and Cordoba.

“In other words, the region would have four representatives for the CTEPs: one for C8 (Montes de María), one for C12 (Sierra Nevada, Perijá and Zona Bananera), one for C13 (Sur de Bolívar) and one for the C14 (South of Córdoba)” specifies the text, in which they indicate that these seats are transitory in nature (they would work for the periods 2022-2026 and 2026-2030) and would be added to the 166 seats that currently make up the House of Representatives.

The risks in the region

Trejos and Badillo highlight the benefits of these peace seats for the leaders of these hard-hit territories to achieve their representation in Congress, but they do not hide that there are serious risks to guaranteeing transparent participation, given the conditions of the municipalities: violence associated with the armed conflictillegal rents and patronage political dynamics.

In the Caribbean, these special zones are located in the Montes de Mariasouth of Bolívar, south of Córdoba, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Serranía del Perijá and the Banana Zone.

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The researchers highlight the report of the Electoral Observation Mission (EOM)which warns that of the 40 Caribbean municipalities that will participate in the CTEP elections, 25 have registered acts of political violence between 2016 (signing of the Agreement) and 2021.

Violence has not ceased in these territories

Among the main obstacles that threaten this process is “the violence that has not ceased in any of the subregions,” say the researchers.

In their analysis of the region, they detail that the expansion of the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), the presence of the Conqueror Self-Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada (ACSN) and the Eln, and the arrival of dissidents from the FARC-EP “they threaten to make these elections marked by violence and the impossibility of campaigning freely in rural territories,” they underline.

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Another risk that surrounds the election of the representatives of these peace seats are the traditional parties, which could use these constituencies as ways to put their political allies.

Although the registered persons must prove their status as victims, this does not mean that they represent the interests of the victims of the armed conflict.

“Although the registered persons must prove their status as victims, this does not mean that they represent the interests of the victims. victims of the conflict armed or from their territories, so there is room for legality, but not legitimacy in the seats”, indicates the analysis of Trejos and Badillo.

Lastly, academics warn of the very large distance in several municipalities between the electoral census and the number of registered victims.

“This can give rise, again, to the fact that, due to the low number of votes, the local machinery moves to support a candidate who can easily win. The inexperience of social organizations in matters of electoral logistics and voter mobilization can also work against it. The scenario can become diffuse considering that they must compete with illegal groupspolitical elites and against themselves”, the report points out.

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The threat that haunts the peace seats in the Caribbean - Elections 2022

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It is a way to restore the full exercise of their political, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights”

The risks in the region

In the Caribbean, these special zones are located in the Montes de Mariasouth of Bolívar, south of Córdoba, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Serranía del Perijá and the Banana Zone.

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Violence has not ceased in these territories

Among the main obstacles that threaten this process is “the violence that has not ceased in any of the subregions,” say the researchers.

(Be sure to read: Unpublished photos of military practice in Cartagena with a nuclear submarine)

Another risk that surrounds the election of the representatives of these peace seats are the traditional parties, which could use these constituencies as ways to put their political allies.

Although the registered persons must prove their status as victims, this does not mean that they represent the interests of the victims of the armed conflict.

Lastly, academics warn of the very large distance in several municipalities between the electoral census and the number of registered victims.

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“Colombia is not going to let the Eln bend”, Ministry of Defense for threat of armed strike

BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Monday, February 21, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). After the ELN’s threatening pamphlet announcing that they will declare an armed strike throughout the country, from 6 AM on Wednesday, February 23 until 6 AM on Saturday, February 26, Defense Minister Diego Molano was emphatic in saying that these threats will not be allowed to affect the tranquility of Colombians.

“Colombia is not going to kneel down, or intimidate, or bow down in front of some pamphlets,” Molano clarified.

For the authorities, the alleged strike that threatens to restrict mobility is just an attempt to generate fear on the part of this armed group.

“Colombia has to trust its Public Force and we have to move forward in continuing the economic reactivation and not allowing some pamphlets to change the economic and commercial dynamics that our society requires,” added Molano.

Finally, the National Government pointed out that the masterminds of the alleged strategy of fear are in Venezuela, and that despite the threats, mobility and transportation will be guaranteed throughout the national territory.

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Mojana: they ask to speed up works in the face of a cat before the threat of winter - Other Cities - Colombia

Inhabitants of the Rabón areain the jurisdiction of the municipality of Guaranda, in La Mojana expressed their concern, because they consider that the work being carried out in the cat face break will not be effective by the end of February, as announced by the National Risk Management Unit, responsible of the mitigation works in this region, between the departments of Bolívar and Sucre.

This has been stated by leaders, merchants, ranchers, rice farmers, farmers in general, who arrived at the scene of the emergency with the face of a cat and returned alarmed because They assure that the works do not advance.

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Works are worth 2.5 billion pesos

One of them in Darinel Regino, owner of the ‘El Tamarindo’ farm, located in the jurisdiction of the New Hope corregimiento.

“Since September we have been flooded in La Mojana and in this case I make special mention of the Rabón area. We made a visual inspection of the works that are being carried out and we leave very disappointed, scared, because the works that are being carried out do not guarantee that this year we will not be flooded, ”he said.

The President of the Republic, Iván Duque, promised at the beginning of October 2021 that the works to solve the floods in the La Mojana subregion, in four departments, will be carried out in two phases, one with immediate execution works and the second with the construction of the Directional Breakwater with hydraulic gates.

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The president assured that they will invest 2.5 billion pesos to solve this historical problem that each winter season leaves thousands of victims, millionaire losses, and a rich region considered a pantry, plunged today into poverty. The resources to intervene in La Mojana are backed by a Conpes public policy document as a national strategic project.

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They ask staff who know the local hydraulics

Regino explained that they are working and that the people designated for the works are interested in carrying them out and officials from the National Risk Management Unit are permanently present at the site and do their best to cover up the break. cat face.

“The inspection we have done, the interviews with the farmers in the area, who know the dynamics of the Cauca River, tell us that very soon it will grow and we will see the containment bags that they are placing in the region of The Sierpe”, he affirmed.

They made a new call to the central government to take urgent letters. They request that they pay more attention to the cat’s face and that the work be carried out by qualified personnel who know the local hydraulics.

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“Send machinery of the quality and quantity necessary to cover the rupture caused by the river. It’s not that they don’t want to do it, but the seriousness and magnitude of the problem is greater than the capacity of the people who are working”, he expressed.

Likewise, he specified that what is recorded in the region is a race against time and the inhabitants of the area pray for the Cauca River to go down.

In the midst of last year’s tragedy, the Government maintained that rapid interventions must be made in the 10 critical points in each of the municipalities, but a structural solution is also required that must be executed in four phases over a six-year period. .

The river rose and carried away the containment bags that had been placed

… I have already lost 35 hectares of rice that were ready for fumigation, I have also lost the animals, including poultry, pigs and cattle, and I do not want history to repeat itself”

Another of the growers who lives in the Nueva Esperanza corregimiento asks for the help of the national government because of the critical state they are in when they lose everything.

“We do not see results from the work they are doing, I have already lost 35 hectares of rice that were ready for fumigation, I also lost the animals, including poultry, pigs and cattle, and I do not want history to repeat itself,” he said.

He also stated that they do not see safety in the work being carried out, because recently the river rose and took away the containment bags that had been placed.

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The growers of the Mojana sub-region have stated that now they do not know what to do, because the land can no longer be sown, much less have animals.

The communities assure that the situation is the same between the farmers of La Mojana and El San Jorge, because some lost more and others less hectares cultivated with rice and pancoger.

Flooding in La Mojana

Risk Management promises that on February 28 there will be a definitive closure

…we continue to maintain, according to information from contractors and auditors, the closure for the end of February of the current year

The national director of the National Risk Management Unit, Eduardo José González, said after an inspection visit to the works, that on February 28 they will definitely cover the cat face hole.

“We have made enormous progress on all fronts and on the piles that are in the middle and we continue to maintain, according to information from contractors and inspectors, the closure for the end of February of the current year,” he said.

The official explained that they received additional proposals to increase working hours, with the operation of more machinery, in a channel that faced cat face.

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“Community, delegates, representatives, mayors, representatives of the Government, ranchers, unions and the National Government with the National Risk Management Unit are all working together,” González stressed, after a meeting in the Unified Command Plan -PMU -.

The day that said Conpes document was signed for the mitigation works in La Mojana, Duque assured: “Here the solution, the resources, the Conpes document are established and the idea is to start the works as of January 2022, with a key, the 10 interventions that are immediate are consistent with the structural solution”.

The first work to prevent Mojana from flooding, according to President Duque, must be carried out at the point known as ‘Cara de Gato’, between San Jacinto del Cauca and Guaranda, an area today in emergency again due to threats of flooding in the entire region.

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Biden Speaks with Ukraine’s Zelenskiy as Threat of Russian Invasion Looms

Washington —

U.S. President Joe Biden is speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday as the United States says the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine looms as a “distinct possibility” in the coming days.

Biden is conferring by phone with the Ukrainian leader from the Camp David presidential retreat outside Washington, where the U.S. leader is spending the weekend as Western officials express increased fears that Russian President Vladimir Putin could attack the one-time Soviet republic in the next few days, possibly by Wednesday.

Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security official, told CNN’s “State of the Union” show that the U.S. cannot predict whether Russia might invade this week or after the Beijing Olympics end in a week, but that there is “a distinct possibility there will be a major military action.”

While the U.S. has warned for several months of the threat of a Russian attack, Sullivan said “in the last few days” Moscow has accelerated its military buildup.

Biden, in an hour-long call Saturday with Putin, warned the Russian leader that invading Ukraine would cause “widespread human suffering.” Biden said the United States and its allies remained committed to diplomacy to end the crisis but were “equally prepared for other scenarios.”

Russia said Biden continued to fail to address Moscow’s main security concerns, including ruling out Ukraine’s possible membership in the 30-country NATO military alliance led by the U.S. The Western allies have ruled out Russian veto power over NATO membership as a nonstarter but said they are willing to negotiate other security issues, such positioning of missiles in NATO counties closest to Russia and NATO troop training exercises.

Moscow’s troops have now surrounded much of Ukraine with more than 130,000 troops, to the north of Ukraine in Russian ally Belarus and along Ukraine’s eastern border with Russia, while positioning warships to the south in the Black Sea along the Crimean Peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

“I’m not handicapping what will happen,” Sullivan said, but added that the U.S. and its allies would impose a “significant strategic [economic] loss” on Russia if it attacks Ukraine.

Biden has ruled out sending the U.S. military to fight in Ukraine but sent 5,000 U.S. troops to NATO countries in eastern European countries closest to Russia to help bolster their fighting forces.

The U.S. has urged all Americans living in Ukraine to leave immediately, and the Defense Department has pulled out 160 military advisers who had been assisting the Kyiv government.

Travelers wait at the check-in counters ahead of their flights at the Boryspil airport some 30 kilometers outside Kyiv on Feb. 13, 2022.

Sullivan said the U.S. believes a Russian attack could start with a barrage of missiles and aerial bombings followed by a ground invasion.

“Civilians could be killed regardless of their nationality,” he said.

Numerous countries have ordered their diplomatic personnel to leave Kyiv, while some are keeping smaller contingents in consulates in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, near the Polish border.

Several international airlines have stopped flying into Ukraine because of the impending threat of warfare, although Ukraine said it has not closed its airspace.

Dutch airline KLM said Saturday that it has canceled flights to Ukraine until further notice.

Dutch worries about the potential danger in Ukrainian airspace is high in the wake of the 2014 shootdown of a Malaysian airliner over an area of eastern Ukraine held by Russia-backed rebels. All 298 people aboard were killed, including 198 Dutch citizens.

The Ukrainian charter airline SkyUp said Sunday that its flight from Madeira, Portugal, to Kyiv was diverted to the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, after the Irish leasing company that owns the plane said it was banning flights in Ukrainian airspace.

Some material in this report came from the Associated Press.

VP's Husband Whisked from Event Over Bomb Threat

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, was quickly removed from an event Tuesday afternoon because of a reported bomb threat.

Emhoff was attending a Black History Month event at Dunbar High School in Washington when the Secret Service whisked him away.

A Secret Service agent reportedly approached Emhoff and said, “We have to go.”

“We had a threat today to the facility, so we did — basically we took the precaution of evacuating everybody, as you saw. I think everyone is safe. The building is clear. But I don’t have any specific details at this moment,” said Enrique Gutierrez, a spokesperson for the public school system in the nation’s capital.

Emhoff was taken to a waiting motorcade.

Students and faculty were also told to leave the building and went home for the day as police searched the building for a bomb.

US Mired in 'Heightened Threat Environment'

Washington —

The prevalence of conspiracy theories and bad or misleading information, online and in social media forums, is keeping the United States in a state of heightened alert when it comes to possible terror attacks.

The Department of Homeland Security issued an updated National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin Monday, warning that while many of the top threat streams have changed little over the past year, almost all of them are being amplified by the information environment.

DHS said the proliferation of false narratives aimed at undermining trust in public institutions, combined with growing calls for violence by both domestic actors and foreign terrorist organizations, “has increased the volatility, unpredictability, and complexity of the threat environment.”

Specifically, the updated DHS bulletin cites “widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19,” which it says is being amplified by “malign foreign powers.”

The bulletin also warns of continued calls for violence against soft targets — public venues and gatherings that often have limited security — including houses of worship such as churches, mosques and synagogues.

“The recent attack on a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas highlights the continuing threat of violence based upon racial or religious motivations, as well as threats against faith-based organizations,” according to the bulletin.

Recent threats against historically Black colleges and universities also “cause concern and may inspire extremist threat actors to mobilize to violence,” the bulletin said.

Officials have also expressed concern about domestic groups advocating violence in the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections in November and the possibility that foreign terrorists, especially those sympathetic to the Islamic State group, will launch attacks in retaliation for the death of IS leader Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla last week.

“DHS remains committed to proactively sharing timely information and intelligence about the evolving threat environment with the American public,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement Monday.

“We also remain committed to working with our partners across every level of government and in the private sector to prevent all forms of terrorism and targeted violence, and to support law enforcement efforts to keep our communities safe,” he added.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Justice Department announced it was forming a new unit to help investigate and prosecute domestic terrorism, pointing to rising caseload.

According to the FBI, domestic violent extremists carried out four attacks in 2021, leading to 13 deaths.

An unclassified U.S. intelligence assessment released last March also warned of a broad threat from domestic extremists, focusing its concern on lone offenders and small cells, all subscribing to a diverse set of violent ideologies but “galvanized by recent political and societal events.”

NATO Sends Troops, Warplanes East to Counter Russian Threat

Several NATO member states are sending troops and hardware to allies in Eastern Europe as tensions with Russia escalate. The United States has put several thousand troops on alert. Moscow has over 100,000 troops amassed on the Ukraine border, and the West fears an imminent Russian invasion, which the Kremlin denies. Henry Ridgwell looks at what NATO’s military response means.

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US, European Leaders Align Against Russian Invasion Threat

WASHINGTON —

Russia said Tuesday it is watching “with great concern” following a U.S. move to put 8,500 troops on alert for possible deployment to eastern Europe.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov repeated to reporters Russian accusations that the United States is escalating tensions in the crisis along the Russia-Ukraine border.

U.S. President Joe Biden met virtually Monday afternoon with key European leaders to discuss the ongoing threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“I had a very, very, very good meeting — total unanimity with all the European leaders,” Biden told reporters after hosting a secure video call with allied leaders from Europe, the European Union and NATO.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office released a statement that supported Biden’s summation, saying, “The leaders agreed on the importance of international unity in the face of growing Russian hostility.”

Biden has not decided whether to move U.S. military equipment and personnel closer to Russia. But White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in advance of the meeting with the European officials that the United States has “always said we’d support allies on the eastern flank” abutting Russia.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin placed 8,500 U.S. military personnel on “high alert” of being dispatched to Eastern Europe, where most of them could be activated as part of a NATO response force if Russia invades Ukraine.

FILE - U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin pauses while speaking during a media briefing at the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, Nov. 17, 2021. — FILE – U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin pauses while speaking during a media briefing at the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, Nov. 17, 2021.

“It’s very clear the Russians have no intention right now of de-escalating,” Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told reporters. “What this is about, though, is reassurance to our NATO allies.”

The White House released a statement after the meeting that said, “The leaders also discussed their joint efforts to deter further Russian aggression against Ukraine,

including preparations to impose massive consequences and severe economic costs on Russia for such actions as well as to reinforce security on NATO’s eastern flank.”

WATCH: US preps for possible deployment to Europe

Biden has ruled out sending troops to Ukraine if Russia invades the onetime Soviet republic but vowed to impose quick and severe economic sanctions on Moscow.

Kirby said the U.S. military is “keenly focused” on the Russian military’s 127,000-troop buildup along the Ukraine border and in Belarus. He said the United States was “taking steps to heighten readiness over Ukraine,” including for a NATO response force if the Western military forces are activated.

FILE - Ukrainian soldiers stand on a check-point close to the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels, Mariupol, Donetsk region, Jan. 21, 2022. — FILE – Ukrainian soldiers stand on a check-point close to the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels, Mariupol, Donetsk region, Jan. 21, 2022.

U.S. and Russian officials have had four face-to-face meetings in the past two weeks over Western concerns about the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine and Russian fears of NATO operations in Eastern Europe, and Biden has also talked directly with European allies.

Russia insists the troops are on the border for its own protection but is demanding NATO provide guarantees it will stop its eastward expansion, beginning with not allowing Ukraine to join the alliance, a move Moscow perceives as a threat. NATO has repeatedly rejected that request, saying Russia has no veto over NATO membership for other countries.

The United States and Russia are planning to exchange written statements this week about their demands of each other.

VOA White House correspondent Anita Powell contributed to this report. Some information also came from The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.

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