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Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta: threats to candidates - Congress - Elections 2022

New complaints were learned about situations of insecurity that candidates for the Congress of the republic in the department of Magdalena.

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This time, Claudia Vázquez, a candidate for a peace seat, assured that as an applicant it has been impossible for her to promote her name in the upper parts of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, due to the presence of armed groups.

He found some armed men on a motorcycle on the trail that leads to the corregimiento and they prevented him from entering

According to Vázquez, in this territory he is only allowed to enter Rodrigo ‘Yoyo’ Tovar Vélez, son of alias ‘Jorge 40’, who through alleged intimidation is pressuring the population to vote for his proposal.

“My running mate Daimer Dangond was going to the village of Doña María, in the upper part of the Sierra, and found some armed men on a motorcycle on the trail that leads to the village and they prevented him from entering,” Vázquez said.

This situation was reported to the authoritieswho did not give him the relevance he demanded, according to what he said, because they did not have enough evidence.

However, the issue became more relevant after another politician, also in the same area, announced a similar fact.

In this case, the armed men intercepted him and they disarmed their scheme of security. Subsequently, they were forced to withdraw from the territory.

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Authorities are investigating both cases.

Based on both situations, an investigation was initiated into what is happening in specific points of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

This testimony reinforces the version of the legal adviser of the government of Magdalena, José Humberto Torres, who warned that in that department there are armed groups that accompany the application of Jorge Rodrigo Tovar, son of former paramilitary leader Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, alias ‘Jorge 40’.

“In Magdalena, the GAO (Organized Armed Groups), heirs to paramilitarism, are forcing voters to vote for alias Yoyo, son of paramilitary chief Jorge 40; Everything indicates that the heirs of the parapolitics will also return to Congress,” the departmental official warned at the time.

Roger Urieles
For THE WEATHER Santa Marta
@rogeruv

Candidates for the Chamber for Santander talk about their proposals - Candidates - Elections 2022

For the next elections for the House of Representatives for Santander there are 61 candidates from ten parties, movements or coalitions who aspire to keep one of the seven seats that the department has.

EL TIEMPO spoke with the heads of the list of some of these communities and asked them about issues of national interest, such as economic reactivation, as well as about their bets on legislative initiatives that directly benefit Santandereans.

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Luz Dana Leal, Green Party

Luz Dana Leal, Green Party

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

Our party analyzes this panorama taking into account the economy in the post-pandemic, it is necessary that essential goods and services be prioritized: food, developing agriculture and that the peasants are co-owners of the productive chain, health, quality education, housing in the urban and rural. The premises of the welfare state are admirable, principles of the Keynesian model such as the increase in public spending, obviously without corruption, generating additional demand to drive investment and thus reduce unemployment.

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What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

Projects for the transformation of Santanderean agriculture, of sustainable tourism, which must be intensified for economic reactivation. We are rich in biodiversity and our provinces are ready to be empowered.

Oscar Villamizar, Democratic Center

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

As a party, some programs have been promoted that motivate entrepreneurship and professional training, but this must go hand in hand with tax incentives so that companies generate more employment opportunities in Colombia. The need for forgivable credits for micro, small and medium entrepreneurs, which are the basis of our economy. This should be a public policy and the National Government should strengthen proposals such as Ser Pilo Pays or Matricula Cero, which really offers a future to our young people, who are the ones who see themselves most relegated and without opportunities.

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What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

Without a doubt, Santander lacks good roads that facilitate the work of our farmers when transporting their products. The first commitment is with the veredal roads, since they generate development in the countryside and benefit all the producing families. In the same way, we will continue promoting initiatives that strengthen the laws that help our peasants to produce with competitive costs.

Juan Sebastian Lopez, Hope Center

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

Defend the Colombian internal market by renegotiating the FTAs that turned out to be bad deals for the country. Real support for industry and agriculture with reduced taxes on small and medium-sized businesses, cheap credit and increased tariffs.

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

Modernization of the Ecopetrol refinery in Barrancabermeja for a responsible energy transition. Reactivation of the Santander fashion system, footwear and clothing. Dual lane between Bucaramanga and Barbosa and a real road plan for Santander. Municipal and regional aqueducts, which are so needed. Navigability on the Magdalena River. Among others.

Total defense of water, the Santurbán páramo and other strategic ecosystems in the region. The ancestral expressions of small-scale mining must be respected and a responsible transition towards ecotourism and other activities with less environmental impact must be made.

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Hector Mantilla, Conservative Party

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

As a candidate for the House of Representatives for Santander, I consider it pertinent that for there to be an economic reactivation, entrepreneurship must be supported and encouraged through soft loans and tax forgiveness (such as rent within the first two years), under certain parameters. that allow monitoring to avoid tax fraud; In addition to proposing that already established companies can have greater competitiveness in the market through lower tariffs on raw materials.

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

I have always believed that Colombians are people pushed forward, with great business ideas that many times they cannot execute because they do not have the necessary tools; Therefore, I think it is important to promote an entrepreneurship law that provides opportunities for people to create a business or legalize the one they already have. This would undoubtedly boost the economic development of the country in the different regions. On the other hand, it is necessary to support the productive agricultural sectors of the country. We know that the field is extremely fundamental and needs guarantees so that its products can really be sold and generate profits.

Diego Frank Ariza, Liberal Party

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

The employment crisis can be overcome to the extent that we address the problems of sectors with high potential in Colombia, such as agribusiness, housing and manufacturing.

Direct foreign and national investment should be oriented towards low-impact infrastructure improvement programs, and thus increase the massive hiring of local labor.

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

The main bet must be to overcome the great divergence between the country’s regions. In the first place, continue strengthening infrastructure projects at all levels, but mainly those that allow production centers to communicate efficiently with the national market.

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Erika Sánchez, League of Governors Movement

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

Attack head-on the causes that today have more than 22 million Colombians in poverty. The main cause that the League has identified is corruption, which implies the diversion of more than 50 billion pesos a year, which, if they were not stolen, would serve to be applied to investment and with it favor the millions of poor , which are, among other reasons, because they do not have permanent and decent sources of employment.

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

Act as a regional caucus. The regional projects that I will promote must be agreed with the governments of the department and the municipalities, in order to ensure that they are consistent with the respective development plans and thus avoid the promotion of projects that come out of a bucket, often contrary to the real needs of the community and only conceived with a political criteria of paying electoral favors.

The candidates who seek to renew the Senate for the Valley - Cali - Colombia

Today’s candidate for the Senate michel maya it was before Alianza Verde and he was aspiring in the past to be mayor of Cali.

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Today’s Senate candidate Michel Maya was before Alianza Verde and was aspiring in the past to be mayor of Cali.

He joined Dignidad, a movement founded by Senator Jorge Robledo, but wants to win a seat in the Senate, as a candidate for the new Centro Esperanza coalition.

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He said that he wants to work on a great development plan for the Valley and the Colombian Pacific, promoting a special free zone for Buenaventura, of the Páez Law type, which will allow investment and socioeconomic development to be generated in the largest municipality in the department.

In Centro Esperanza, a union of forces, also enters to support the presenter and journalist Mabel Larawho is running for the Senate as head of the list in the New Liberalism and with the presidential candidate Juan Manuel Galán.

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Esau Urrutia he also wants to reach the Senate of the Republic. The former Secretary of Territorial Development and Social Welfare of Cali for the U.

“Hand in hand with people with great transformations that people need,” says the applicant, who is also a journalist and worked for the media in Valle del Cauca.

Norma Stolen, who came to the House of Representatives for the U Party four years ago, wants to continue in Congress, but this time he wants to do it from the Senate. He continues with the U, with the support of José Rítter López, who in this case did not run as a candidate for the corporation. His son, Julián David López, is head of the U list for the House of Representatives. John Jairo Hoyos will seek to repeat a seat in the House of Representatives.

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Daniel Garcia, who was dismissed by the Attorney General’s Office as director of Coldeportes, now occupies number 99 on the list of candidates for the Senate by the Democratic Center. He created a video controversy with Óscar Iván Zuluaga, questioning the mayor of Cali, Jorge Iván Ospina.

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Biden Interviews Trio of Candidates for Supreme Court

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President Joe Biden has interviewed at least three candidates for the Supreme Court, according to a person familiar with the matter, and the White House is reiterating that he remains on track to make a final selection by Monday.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that Biden had not decided whom to nominate. But the president has interviewed Judges Ketanji Brown Jackson, J. Michelle Childs and Leondra Kruger, according to a person familiar with the matter. A second person familiar said Biden had interviewed at least three candidates for the post. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the process.

FILE - Ketanji Brown Jackson, now a federal appeals court judge, is a potential Supreme Court nominee. — FILE – Ketanji Brown Jackson, now a federal appeals court judge, is a potential Supreme Court nominee.

Biden has pledged to nominate the first Black woman to the high court by the end of the month to fill the vacancy being created by the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer. It was not clear whether any additional candidates have been interviewed by the president.

Psaki declined to discuss whether Biden had conducted interviews but insisted the president was “on track” to make the selection despite rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

Jackson was nominated by President Barack Obama to be a district judge. Biden elevated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Early in her career, she was also a law clerk for Breyer.

FILE - U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs is pictured Feb. 18, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. Childs, 55, is reportedly under consideration for an open slot on the U.S. Supreme Court. — FILE – U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs is pictured Feb. 18, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. Childs, 55, is reportedly under consideration for an open slot on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Childs, a federal judge in South Carolina, has been nominated but not yet confirmed to serve on the same circuit court. Her name has surfaced partly because she is a favorite among some high-profile lawmakers, including Representative James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat.

Kruger, a graduate of Harvard University and Yale University’s law school, was previously a Supreme Court clerk and argued a dozen cases before the justices as a lawyer for the federal government before becoming a justice on the California Supreme Court.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is signaling he wants a fair fight over Biden’s pick, discouraging those within his GOP ranks who are eager to interject a broader debate over race into the confirmation process.

FILE - Leondra Kruger, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California, is pictured in San Francisco, Feb. 3, 2022. Kruger is among those whose names have been floated as a possible replacement for retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. — FILE – Leondra Kruger, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California, is pictured in San Francisco, Feb. 3, 2022. Kruger is among those whose names have been floated as a possible replacement for retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

Speaking Tuesday in Kentucky, McConnell distanced himself from GOP senators and others who have criticized Biden for declaring his intent to nominate a Black woman.

“I heard a couple of people say they thought it was inappropriate for the president to announce he was going to put an African American woman on the court. Honestly, I did not think that was inappropriate,” McConnell said.

The GOP leader drew on history to remind people that former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump both promised to put women on the court — when Reagan tapped Sandra Day O’Connor as the first female justice and Trump chose Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “I’m not complaining about that,” McConnell said.

More to the point, Republicans are unable to stop Biden’s pick in the 50-50 Senate where Democrats have the majority with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote. They want to allow the confirmation process to unfold without self-inflicted political drama so they can resume challenging the president on their preferred topics of the economy and the administration’s handling of COVID-19.

Republicans believe one way to show voters how they would govern is by drawing a contrast between this court battle and the controversy that exploded around Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, when the Trump nominee was accused of sexual assault, a claim he denied. Republicans believe Senate Democrats suffered with voters after those highly politicized public confirmation hearings.

“This confirmation will not occur like that,” McConnell said. He said he expects a confirmation process that Americans can be proud of. “We believe a Supreme Court nominee ought to be respectfully treated, thoroughly vetted and then voted upon.”

University of Cali candidates debate: moments of tension - Congress - Elections 2022

Moments of tension and discussion were experienced during a debate of candidates for Congress organized by the Universidad San Buenaventura.

The candidate of the Radical Change party, Juanita Catañoverbally confronted students, including other candidates.

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The event was proceeding normally, but when the issue of the national strike was brought up, the discussions began.

Former deputy Cataño ignited the spirits when she described the strike as “a guerrilla takeover.”

“In the social outbreak as you call the guerrilla takeover, alias 19 gave orders from prison to damage, burn and destroy not only the infrastructure of Mio and the Police, but many other things that affect the Colombian people. Yes, even if they prick their conscience, it was a guerrilla takeover that the country suffered”, said the candidate.

Immediately, some of those attending the event complained about her words and the candidate immediately attacked: “Respect because what happened in Colombia was a guerrilla takeover, even if you don’t like it… with bandits and political accomplices.”

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Despite the moderator’s intervention, tempers heated up even more, Cataño challenged the students to try to get her out of the auditorium.

At the moment of tension, the candidate Tejada also intervened, whom he described as a “bandit.” Given this situation, the candidate expressed his intention to withdraw, but after mediation by the moderator, the event continued.

Debate of candidates for Congress heated up at the University of Cali - Cali - Colombia

Moments of tension and discussion were experienced during a debate of candidates for Congress organized by the Universidad San Buenaventura.

The candidate of the Cambio Radical party, Juanita Cataño, verbally clashed with students, including other candidates.

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The event was proceeding normally, but when the issue of the national strike was brought up, the discussions began.

Former deputy Cataño ignited the spirits when she described the strike as “a guerrilla takeover.”

(Also read: The controversies of leaders of the Democratic Center for security in Cali).

Despite the moderator’s intervention, tempers heated up even more, Cataño challenged the students to try to get her out of the auditorium.

At the moment of tension, candidate Tejada also intervened, describing him as a “bandit.” Faced with this situation, the candidate expressed his intention to withdraw, but after mediation by the moderator everything continued as normal.

This discussion on social networks unleashed a large number of comments that support and criticize the Radical Change candidate.

Elections 2022: Young strike leaders go for a seat in the Antioquia Chamber - Candidates - Elections 2022

Susana Gómez Castaño, better known as Susana Boreal, left anonymity behind on May 5 of last year when he surprised himself by directing, in the midst of the national strike, an orchestra of 400 musicians in the Parque de Los Deseos.

That day, this young orchestra conducting student at the University of Antioquia managed with her baton to make the musicians raise their instruments in protest and that those who were gathered there that afternoon were infected with a peaceful emotion.

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After the video in which she appears directing the unusual concert from an improvised stage was viralized, she received proposals from leaders of different parties inviting her to be part of their political hosts.

She decided to risk it for Human Colombia, today converted into the Historical Pact headed by Gustavo Petro. And he did it because he finds in the ideology of this movement affinity with his thought. She is number 2 on the list and to get there she hopes to get 180,000 votes.

Although she has dedicated herself to music since she was a child, playing violin, piano, bandoneon, guitar and lyrical singing, the greatest motivation she has for becoming involved in politics was a tragedy. Her older sister was murdered by her husband four years ago and this marked her. She had 11 children and was a victim of harassment, physical and psychological abuse and, despite the fact that she reported what was happening to her at police stations, they never paid attention to her.

Susana Boreal, candidate for the Chamber.

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Esneyder Gutierrez

His parents and four other sisters had to take care of the children, even without the economic conditions to assume responsibility. Also the difficulties that she experienced as an artist and as a woman in a macho environment, gave her the strength to fight for women’s rights.

Precisely, delegating to Congress intends to support the decriminalization of abortion and that women have the guarantees to do it safely and free of charge. Likewise, it proposes action against gender violence, also avoiding femicide will be key and access to training on sexual and reproductive rights for women living in rural areas.

Susana began studying pure mathematics at the University of Antioquia, then she turned to music, beginning with lyrical singing for seven semesters. Later, she switched to conducting. She was on an exchange for a year in Belgium, where she studied choral and orchestral music conducting. She returned to Medellin and is only missing the graduation recital to finish her academic studies.

Susana sees in culture and art a fundamental part of the integral formation of any human being, “because through this society can become a set of sentient beings and with this people would not use violence to express their thoughts ”, he assures.

For this, he proposes that artistic training be done from basic education, providing infrastructure, trained personnel and resources; strengthen the houses of culture and formalize street artists, both in rural and urban areas.

With regard to youth, his idea is to build a more sensitive society from diversity, resignifying public spaces and monuments, that the State recognizes responsibility and participation in the acts of violence committed by the public force in the framework of the strike national and in the armed conflict. It will seek for this to be done through programs, monuments and cultural and artistic projects in which young people have been included.

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an objector

Another of the candidates that emerged after last year’s social protests is the social and community leader Jerson Jader González Marulanda, better known as Kannabic Objector.

Kanábico is 30 years old and considers himself a youth actor. He is the son of a feminist woman, Marta Cecilia Marulanda Salas, who has been in community work for more than 49 years. And because of this, Kanábico was linked from an early age in politics where he was trained in human rights, pacifism, local planning and development, community organization, among other aspects that allowed him to understand politics and politics.

His adolescence was key to meeting and reaffirming himself politically with the ideological constructions of antimilitarism and rebelliousness. In addition, of the mobilization scenarios such as the last strikes and the social outbreaks that the country has experienced and from where he has been in defense of human rights and social activism.

Its political purpose is to contribute to the reconstruction and redignification of the country, “a fight to improve the issue that few had a lot, and many that had little, I say this because I lived it and understood it as a duty, ”says Kanábico.

Although his aspirations have always been to become a councilor in Medellín, he decided to aspire to the House of Representatives for Antioquia, endorsed by the Historical Pact where he feels identified.

Kanábico’s proposals is that the social state of law can really be applied. For this, he proposes to rethink the role of the police and military forces, that they be allowed to carry out a task that is in tune with what they are: the Army to defend national sovereignty and that its presence and action be on the border, not in cities. , urban centers or towns, and the Police that apply their role in coexistence and work with the communities and that is attached to the Ministry of the Interior and not to the Ministry of Defence.

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Jader González Marulanda, better known as Kanábico Objector.

Photo:

Esneyder Gutierrez

A victim of the conflict

On the other hand, the young candidate Jefferson Echevarry27 years old, says that he was a victim of the armed conflict when, barely a year old, his father was assassinated.

Echeverri was motivated to get into politics by helping less favored families, because a few years ago, when he tried to start a business to support his own, he ran into the obstacle that he couldn’t start a business in public space and there were permits, despite wanting to carry out all the necessary paperwork.

That situation was the opposite to the point of wanting to fight for other people who were going through the same situation, “I felt that the State was against people who wanted to work, even if it was in the informal sector, and even more so with many of us who were even victims. of violence,” says Echeverry.

Jefferson Echeverry, young candidate.

Photo:

Esneyder Gutierrez

For this reason, initially he fought to be part of a political group and managed to be a candidate for the Municipal Youth Council (CMJ). Now in his candidacy hand in hand with the Historical Pact, he seeks to represent young people from the perspective that the proposals do not they are designed for a four-year government, but rather a 16-year project.

His proposals are based on the legalization of marijuana and the coca leaf. “The plants are not bad, they are plants with healing and ancestral properties that even their benefits are approved by science and this could bring us development and the long-awaited peace,” says the young candidate.

It also wants to strengthen free education for all, but in an integral way, with resources for transportation, food, among other conditions so that students can prepare themselves in an integral way and then they can be young people who help the progress of society.

ESNEYDER GUTIERREZ
FOR THE TIME
MEDELLIN

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This is how the party goes for the House of Representatives in Valle - Candidates - Elections 2022

the race of 124 candidates for reaching 13 seats for the Cauca’s Valley in the House of Representatives He goes with his networks, between alliances and formulas to also secure steps in the Senate for the region.

The die is cast in this dispute that has just one month left with the parties making calculations about how many seats they have left on behalf of the departmental parliamentary caucus.

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The liberals achieved in 2018 the highest number of votes for the Valley with 276,716. However, calculations predict that they could lose between 50,000 and 70,000 votes to candidates not elected four years ago. So out of four seats they would be left with three for the Congress.

They await votes for Adriana Gómez (today head of the list in Valle), Juan Fernando Reyes Kuri and Álvaro Henry Monedero, current representatives to the Chamber.

In the U second party with the most votes in the region in 2018 (272,843 votes), the accounts would show three seats as in the 2018 vote. But, there are those who maintain that, with all the votes that it has taken from other communities, the U could increase the vote. But if the 272,000 votes are exceeded with an addition of 20,000, the U could take four seats.

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For the U van Julián David Gómez as head of the list for the Chamber for Valle and although it is his first time running for Congress, he brings with him the support of his father, Senator José Rítter López.

On the list are the cultural and social manager Patricia Alaeddine and the journalist Patricia Collazos, whose duo for the Senate is Juan Carlos Garcés. Likewise, the athlete Jackeline Rentería, sheltered by Dilian Francisca Toro. Norma Hurtado (current parliamentarian) wants to go to the Senate and is close to Víctor Salcedo, former manager of Telepacífico.

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With the Democratic Center, the third party with the most votes in 2018 (142,165), Christian Garcés returns for the Chamber with Gabriel Velasco, who is going to the Senate. The party also has a seat in the Chamber today with Milton Angulo. Aspire to repeat.

The conservatives, the fourth with the most votes in 2018 with 119,996. His future is not clear, although they hope to secure a seat with Gustavo Vélez, backed by the former governor of Valle Ubéimar Delgado, who is after his return to the Senate.
Mira and Colombia Justa Libres, which formed the coalition Nos une Colombia, would have a seat in the Chamber.

The Hope Coalition He is going for a seat and is disputed by Gloria Peña, Yitcy Becerra, Míldred Arias, among others. Although for now it would be one, the coalition aspires to a second seat. There is support from those who go with the New Liberalism, the ASI, those of Dignity, among others.

Michel Maya, who was previously in Alianza Verde, is now part of Dignidad, Senator Jorge Robledo’s movement. He works hand in hand with Mábel Lara, who is running for the Senate in the New Liberalism, with the presidential candidate Juan Manuel Galán.

Green Alliance, which obtained 101,545 votes in 2018, reached one seat. Duvalier Sánchez is his head of the list and he is going for that seat.

In Radical change Today he has a seat in the Chamber with Oswaldo Arcos. Now comes Juanita Cataño, who comes from the Democratic Center. The party has three senators. They are Carlos Abraham Jiménez, Carlos Motoa and José Luis Pérez. Camilo Trujillo, son of the late Carlos Holmes Trujillo, is seeking a seat in the Senate.

The Historical Pactled by Gustavo Petro, is going for a seat with journalist Alberto Tejada and manager Alejandro Ocampo.

Who came to the Chamber, four years ago?

Oswaldo Arcos Benavides (Radical Change)
Christian Munir Garces Aljure (Democratic Center)
Milton Hugo Ángulo Viveros (Democratic Center)
Norma Hurtado Sánchez (The U)
Jorge Eliecer Tamayo Marulanda (The U)
Elbert Diaz Lozano (The U)
John Jairo Hoyos Garcia (The U)
Fabio Fernando Arroyave Rivas (Liberal Party)
Juan Fernando Reyes Kuri (Liberal Party)
Adriana Gómez Millán (Liberal Party)
Álvaro Henry Monedero Rivera (Liberal Party)
José Gustavo Padilla Orozco (Conservative Party)
Catalina Ortiz Lalinde (Green Alliance)

CALI

Atlantic: the candidates for the House of Representatives 2022 - Candidates - Elections 2022

The people of Atlántico are getting ready to elect next Sunday, March 13, those they consider the most appropriate to represent the department in the lower house of the Congress of the republic.

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There are a total of 62 candidates who have been distributed into 10 lists to fight, during the 2022 legislative election day for seven seats.

Some repeat their candidacy, others withdrew from the exercise, while a few more tour the Atlantic municipalities to present their proposals. In that sense, the candidates for the House of Representatives for the Atlantic are:

Historical Pact

Agmeth Escaf, Dreisa María Rosas, Gladys Oliveros, Edith Camerano, Fabián Miranda and Yazmer Ramos.

Hope Center Coalition

Beatriz Eugenia Vélez, William Corredor, Henry Manuel García, Ethiel Manjarrés, Norman Alarcón and Arnold Gómez.

Radical change

Modesto Aguilera, Rober Sanjuan, Gersel Pérez, Lourdes González, Betsy Pérez, José Amar and Luz González.

Commons Party

Germán José Gómez, Onivia Beatriz Esmeral and Raimundo Raish.

Liberal Party

Jezmi Lizeth Barraza, Yaser Julián Eljach, Manuela Martínez, Jasivi Fernández, Uriel Rafael Ávila, Dolcey Óscar Torres and Julio José Mejía.

Look, Just and Liberal Colombia and Democratic Center

Marlys Maldonado, Meliza Barraza, Leonardo Flórez, Elsa Mónica Sandoval, Daniel Pérez, Mónica Utria and Reynel Antonio Castro.

New Liberalism

Sandra Leventhal, Eunice Echavarría, Rossana Pezzano, Zoranilly Valencia, Camilo Ernesto Aguilar, Santander Augusto Pertúz and Olson Wilfrido Ortiz.

party of the u

Luis Carlos Luque, Gastón Jaime Torné, Diana Patricia Macías, Keysi Henríquez, Astrid Velásquez, Oswaldo Rafael Sierra and Carlos Julio Dennis.

Conservative Party

Armando Zabaraín, Mauricio Castro, Alexis González, Nidia Sara Donado, Edwin Alberto Ramírez, Edith Estela Góngora and Adriana de Jesús Blanco.

national salvation

Jesus Raimundo Godoy, Edgar Santander Redondo and Angie Melissa Orozco.

This is the panorama in the department

Two facts are key to understanding this phenomenon: the pandemic and the social outbreak of the previous year

For the research teacher, Alexander Whitethese will be the most atypical elections in the last 30 years of territorial participatory democracy, since 1988.

“Two facts are key to understanding this phenomenon: the pandemic and the social outbreak of the previous year. One aspect that draws attention is the high number of applications. This political fact has no precedent in this department, ”said the also doctor in Political Science to EL TIEMPO.

In this sense, he considers that the number of candidates it strengthens the democratic system and is “a symptom of a slightly more structured vote” in a department where, according to reports from the MOE, the machines mark the electoral pulse.

According to the latest Strategic Measurements survey, the list of the Historic Pact in the Atlantic would be the most voted with 13 percent of voting intentions.

“With this as a reference, it is necessary to highlight that for more than a decade progressive or alternative parties or movements have not won seats in the House of Representatives. A real opportunity opens up to win an alternative or progressive court seat for the Atlantic”, he pointed out.

Regarding Cambio Radical, Blanco maintained: “Everything indicates that the four seats of Cambio Radical will not be altered. The other seats are being disputed by the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party”.

More details and curiosities in this contest

When it became known that the communicator Agmeth Escaf headed the list of the Historical Pact above other similar ones, such as the lawyer Miguel Ángel del Río, a controversy was generated between some members and followers of the party.

Those who protested the determination, assured that the former TV presenter was not in accordance with the ideas of the Pact and even brought up photographs in which he was seen with the presidential candidate Alejandro Char, who at the same time is a direct rival of Gustavo Petro in these elections.

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Men are the majority: of the 62 candidates for the House of Representatives for the department of Atlántico, 29 are women. The New Liberalism and Mira – CJL – CD parties are the ones with the most female candidates, with four on each list.

Under the ‘shadow’ of Aida Merlano: Another candidacy that has given rise to talk is that of Adriana Blanco, for the Conservative party. She was the campaign manager for Aida Merlano in 2018 and is now Senator Laureano Acuña’s formula.

Among the group of those seeking to continue in the House of Representatives are: Armando Zabaraín, who is head of the Conservative party list; Jezmi Barraza, Modesto Aguilera and José Amar, from Cambio Radical.

Meanwhile, the representatives who have decided to leave in this period are: César Lorduy (Radical Change), who ran for the Senate, Karina Rojano (Radical Change), whose father registered his candidacy for the Senate for the Liberal party; and Martha Villalba (Party of the U), who would go for the Government of the Atlantic.

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Asocapitales asked for respect after the candidate's insult to the Mayor of Cali - Cali - Colombia

The mayor of Cali, Jorge IvÃ¡n Ospina.

The mayor of Cali, Jorge Iván Ospina.

Association asks that political campaigns be developed within the ideas and respect.

After the episode in which the presidential candidate Óscar Iván Zuluaga insulted the mayor of Cali Jorge Iván Ospina through a video dialogue, the Colombian Association of Capital Cities, Asocapitales, asked to base a campaign on ideas and respect.

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“Faced with the unfortunate statements spread on social networks, within the framework of the current Colombian political process, makes a respectful call to develop a campaign based on ideas and proposals and we urge respect for the popularly elected leaders,” the association said in a statement.

In the same text, it adds that “it is affected when the leaders who were democratically and legitimately elected to lead the destinies of the capital cities are unknown.”

That is why they invite “collective construction based on values such as tolerance, respect and solidarity.”

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The association maintains that at this moment that the country is going through in the face of the electoral elections, it becomes a “opportunity to foster dialogue, pluralism and to continue advancing in the construction of peace in the midst of diversity”.

“This can only be achieved if the ideas of the other are respected, the multiple realities faced by the regions of the country are recognized, and the value of citizen participation is addressed,” the statement concludes.

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Candidates for peace seats in Antioquia denounce having no guarantees - Medellín - Colombia

Without guarantees for the elections on March 13, This is how the candidates for the peace seats in Antioquia arewho, a month before being measured at the polls, have not been able to start campaigning because the National Government has not disbursed the resources, which adds to the lack of security in the territories due to the presence of armed groups.

Several entities have already warned about the risks of this electoral contest, the most recent was the Ombudsman’s Office, which indicated this Thursday that the candidates and communities of the South of Córdoba and Bajo Cauca Antioqueño and Chocó are at high risk due to the action of groups armed.

Although this electoral alert was for the entire national territory, due to the pressure exerted by the ELN, the FARC dissidents and the Clan del Golfomainly, was made from the municipality of Caucasia, one of the Antioquia territories that are included in the special transitory districts of peace.

Through these special transitional constituencies for peace (CTEP), the victims will have representation in the Congress of the Republic for the first time this year, so the elections will be held in the rural area of prioritized municipalities in 16 groups.

Antioquia was included in four of the CTEPs. Section 3, which corresponds to the North, Northeast and Lower Cauca regions and covers 13 municipalities (Amalfi, Anorí, Briceño, Cáceres, Caucasia, El Bagre, Ituango, Nechí, Remedios, Segovia, Tarazá, Valdivia and Zaragoza); 6, which is made up of two Antioquia municipalities (Vigía del Fuerte and Murindó), sharing space with 12 from Chocó; section 13, which covers the municipality of Yondó (Antioquia) and shares space with six others in the department of Bolívar; and 16, which includes eight municipalities from Urabá Antioquia (Carepa, Chigorodó, Mutatá, Necoclí, San Pedro de Urabá, Apartadó and Turbo) and one from the West (Dabeiba).

Added to the alert from the Ombudsman in Bajo Cauca was that of the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE), which indicated that 58% of the 167 municipalities of the Special Transitory Circumscriptions of Paz present some level of electoral risk, but more than the third part is concentrated in the Districts of Nariño-Cauca-Valle, Bajo Cauca and Chocó (38.1%).

According to the EOM, in terms of risk due to factors of violence and indicators of electoral fraud, in C3 Bajo Cauca, 9 of its municipalities are at extreme risk and 4 at high risk, which means that 100% of the municipalities in that district have worrying levels of risk.

In turn, in the two municipalities that are part of constituency number, the municipalities of Vigía del Fuerte and Murindó are one at high risk and the other at extreme. And of those in Urabá Antioquia, three municipalities are at high risk and one is at extreme risk.

In turn, Amalfi, Anorí and Segovia are the municipalities at greatest risk of electoral fraud, says the MOE.

“The EOM recommends that the electoral authorities, attorney general, prosecutor’s office and national police adopt the necessary measures to prevent and promptly investigate actions indicative of crimes or irregularities against the electoral process such as electoral transhumance, vote buying, or any other action that affects the electoral transparency”, said Alejandra Barrios, director of the MOE.

Difficulties in financing

These elections will take place in the rural areas of the 167 municipalities most affected by violence in Colombia. In these, 16 seats will be elected, among 403 candidates from social organizations, of victims, peasants and women, and of ethnic organizations.

In Antioquia, 68 candidates belonging to 34 organizations were registered, according to data from the Registrar’s Office, because it had to be done through a joint list (a man and a woman) with two candidates each. Of these organizations, seven are for victims, four are for peasants, there are three community councils, an indigenous reservation and a significant group of citizens, in addition to 18 social organizations.

Fernando Valencia, a professor at the University of Antioquia, explained that there are serious difficulties in this process, one of the points of the Peace Agreement for the victims to see themselves represented in Congress. The first, said the expert, was that these elections were put “by force” in the electoral calendar of the elections to Congress, which have been taking place for two years.

One of the main obstacles now is misinformation, since voters in rural areas do not recognize the mechanics of these votes, there is no pedagogy on the subject and there are large deficits of identity cards and voting stations.

“The social organizations that applied for candidacies have not been able to access state financing, because they were given a peremptory term, they did not have the information, they have not been able to access the conditions of the guarantee policies, which are quite demanding and quite expensive, and because social organizations do not have the administrative and accounting structure, neither financial nor legal, to support these requirements”, Valencia pointed out.

Víctor José Palacios Villa, candidate from the municipality of Necoclí, pointed out that precisely at this moment he has not been able to acquire the policy required by the National Government for the disbursement of resources, taking into account that financing by third parties is prohibited.

“That today the resources have not arrived from the Government is traumatic, because it is in the resolution, but they put some requirements on us, such as the issue of policies, and today in Urabá we have not been able to find an insurer that allows us to insure those resources. Today we, the victims’ candidates, are in limbo, I speak to you from my case, an organization of victims that has no assets and has no way of running campaigns,” Palacios said.

Social networks, meetings and messages have been the only tools until now, to campaign, but the situation is complex as they have to travel to rural areas and remote from the municipalities.

“I personally have not been able to advance, that is why I have been thinking of joining a colleague who is from here in Segovia, because the guarantees are none. We have no budget and we have nothing. This is the work of us, the victims’ leaders, there are so many obstacles that they put in our way”, said candidate Luz Aleida Herrera Castaño.

the machineries

According to teacher Valencia, what the law stipulates is that the only way to donate money to these campaigns is through a state fund, administered by the Registrar’s Office and the National Electoral Council, where the resources must be distributed equitably among the campaigns, although in practice this would not be the case.

Some leaders have denounced a display of propaganda, resources, meetings and events that are not being financed with state resources, so the authorities must put the magnifying glass on several things.

The first is that the candidates are indeed victims and that they meet the requirements of territorial and sectoral representation, an aspect that apparently is not being met in all cases, although these had to be certified by the Victims Unit. The second is the real financing of the campaigns and if there is a relationship with the traditional political parties, which is not allowed, and of course the security of the candidates.

meet the candidates

Victims Organizations

1. Corporation of Surviving Victims of the Conflict in Urabá Envisioning Peace – Comupaz

Candidates: Jhony Rufino Lozano and Inés Mestra Yanes

2. Association of Displaced Persons of Necoclí – Asodene

Candidates: Víctor José Palacios Villa and Herly Patricia Garcés Vidal

3. Association of Displaced Persons of the Municipality of Briceño

Candidates: Jhon Jairo González Agudelo and Martha Eliana Cardozo Díaz

4. Regional Corporation for the Defense of Human Rights – Credhos

Candidates: Juan Pablo Méndez Zuluaga and Ángela Oriana Martínez Ojeda

5. Association of Displaced Persons and Women of Antioquia “Adma”

Candidates: Anaidalyt Delgado Lezama and Bairon Augusto Pérez Vélez

6. Environmental and Social Corporation Building Peace – Coapaz

Candidates: Manzur Agustín Sierra and Esther Cecilia Cabrera Pérez

7. Environmental and Social Corporation Building Peace – Coapaz

Candidates: Sandra Milena Puerta Buriticá and Manuel Tapias Montes

Social Organizations

8. Funvisoc

Candidates: Doris Patricia Carvajal Londoño and Germán Horacio Sucerquia Jaramillo

9. Strength and Will Therapeutic Community Foundation

Candidates: Jorge Arley Guisao Cifuentes and Paola Andrea Gutiérrez Rodríguez

10. Multiactive Social Cooperative Working Together – Coosocialtj

Candidates: Gabriel Antonio León Manco and Leydy Johana Castrillón Palencia

11. Foundation for the Comprehensive Development of Victims and Disabled Fundamasvida

Candidates: Ángela María Hernández Peña and Daniel Solano Hoyos

12. Green Hearts Corporation

Candidates: Roberto Arturo Mejía Vásquez and Lina Marcela Villegas López

13. Redesc Corporation

Candidates: Dibia Estela Escobar Mendoza and Hildemaro Cruz Borja

14. Association of Victims of Violence in Riosucio Clamores

Candidates: Diober Silvestre Blanco Agamez and Geanys Barba Padilla

15. Intercultural Association for the People and Forests of San Lucas – Asigeboslu

Candidates: María Margarita Palacio Pérez and Servio Nolasco Urzola Muñoz

16. Family and Friends Association of Chocó – Asfachocó

Candidates: Edwin Delgado Córdoba and Yajaira Salazar Córdoba

17. Segovia-Remedios Mining Board Association

Candidates: Yarley Erasmo Marín López and Liliana Patricia Peláez Gil

18. Mano de Dios New Dawn Committee of Displaced Persons Association (Asocodeman)

Candidates: Frank David Mejía Jiménez and Marledys del Carmen Ciprián Mejía

19. Shared Happiness Corporation

Candidates: Eusebio Palmera Berrío and Marley Moreno Córdoba

20. Guild Association of Heveiculturists of the Nechí River Basin – Asogrecan

Candidates: Generoso Segundo Barragán Martínez and Sandra Trujillo Salas

21. Turbo Harambe Afro-descendant Black Communities Social and Sports Corporation

Candidates: Gloria Elena Eljach Echavarría and Marlon Caro Úsuga

22. Corporation We Create Urabá – Corpocreamos

Candidates: Menderson Mosquera Quinto and Diana Marcela Hurtado Mosquera

23. Association of Agricultural Producers of the Vereda La Esperanza- Asproages

Candidates: Eduardo Enrique Páez Hernández and Madeny María Meneses Hoyos

24. Corpovigente Vision People Corporation

Candidates: Luis Guillermo Cardona Garzón and Luz Aleida Herrera Castaño

25. Diocesan Share Foundation

Candidates: Luis Eduardo Arvaez Villegas and Diana Tirado Hernandez

community councils

26. Community Council of the La Larga and Tumaradó Rivers

Candidates: Pablo Antonio López Moreno and Jaqueline Ospina Sepúlveda

27. Major Community Council of Nóvita “Cocoman”

Candidates: James Hermenegildo Mosquera Torres and Claudia Patricia Salas Perea

28. Middle Porce Community Council

Candidates: Jhon Jairo Robledo Palacio and María Cecilia Mosquera

peasant organizations

29. Peasant Association of Urabá Ascocamura Hope is Reborn

Candidates: Edier Esteban Manco Pineda and Alcira Blanquicet Navarro

30. Association of United Peasants of Caucasia- Asocamuc

Candidates: Ana Patricia Henao Arrieta and Manuel Eduardo Torres Herrera

31. Association of Canaleteras Futuristas for the Recovery of the Social Fabric and Peace- Growing Alongside the River

Candidates: Pablo Oved Moreno Espinosa and Luz Marina Jiménez Escobar

32. Association of Rubber Producers of the Vereda La Corcovada Municipality of Caucasia Asoccor

Candidates: Edith Margoth Navarro Arrieta and Róbinson Piedrahíta Henao

Indigenous reservation

33. Zenú El Volao Indigenous Reservation

Candidates: Sobeida González Márquez and Alberto Antonio Flórez Márquez

Significant group of citizens

34. I am Uraba

Candidates: Everto Arroyo Pérez and Karen Juliana López Salazar

Barranquilla: debate with presidential candidates in Uninorte - Barranquilla - Colombia

Appearance of the participants in the debate.

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Appearance of the participants in the debate.

Ingrid Betancourt, Francia Márquez, Alejandro Gaviria and Gustavo Petro meet at Uninorte.

This Thursday morning, the Universidad de Norte, in Barranquilla, brought together Ingrid Betancourt, Francia Márquez, Alejandro Gaviria and Gustavo Petro in ‘Presidential candidates 2022: from the Caribbean‘, a debate in which they were able to present their proposals.

(Also read: What was the Centro Esperanza Coalition doing in Aida Merlano’s ‘White House’?)

The presidential candidates spoke about issues such as security and peace, economy and competitiveness, and education and quality, with a focus on the Caribbean region, youth and gender.

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