La Línea Tunnel: children protested for lack of school transportation - Other Cities - Colombia

Due to the lack of school transportation, a group of children belonging to the rural educational institution San Rafael, in Calarcá, Quindío, decided to interrupt traffic for several hours in one of the short tunnels of the via the line.

The students blocked the Cóndor de los Andes tunnel with the purpose of drawing the attention of the authorities so that they expedite the contracting of the rural school transport service and that minors do not continue exposing themselves while they travel the road or asking for a quota from drivers who pass by this road.

“It’s already March and they don’t have transportation. Many live in the upper part and have to go down on foot, exposing themselves to the road. Many muleteers do us the favor of taking them down, but if something happens to one of the children, the muleteer gets into a problem,” denounced Marina García, a relative of one of the students.

The attendant added that every year is the same. “We had to make this sit-in so that they listen to us and that the rights of children are not vulnerable. There are parents who take up to 3 or 4 children on a motorcycle, so much delay with the school transport contract is not fair“.

Students from the San Rafael de Calarcá educational institution blocked the entrance to one of the tunnels on the La Línea road. They claim the school transport service. pic.twitter.com/IHUtGh3m0p

— Laura Sepúlveda (@lausephincapie) March 2, 2022

The school transport of the institution’s students corresponds to the Mayor’s Office of Calarcá, but the entity reported that the process is currently in the stage of awarding the contract.

The Secretary of the Government of Calarcá, Juan David Ospina Salcedo, assured that next Monday the school transport service would start operating. “The commitment to the community is that on Monday the service is provided in this village and in the others in Calarcá,” he said.

Children blocked traffic in the Condor de los Andes tunnel.

They did this school and they did not put signage on it, nobody knows that there is a school in this area, it has nothing, it does not have internet, it is a school abandoned by everyone

Parents and students warned that if next Monday they do not have the service; they will once again block the passage in La Linea.

This educational institution is located in the village of San Rafael, next to the dual carriageway that leads to the La Línea tunnel. A few years ago it was relocated a few meters higher because one of the viaducts of the Central Cordillera Crossing project passed by the educational campus.

“They did this school and they did not put signage on it, nobody knows that there is a school in this area, it has nothing, it does not have internet, it is a school abandoned by everyone,” García claimed.

The Mayor’s Office of Calarcá and the Secretary of Education of Quindío will send a request to the National Institute of Roads (Invías) for the installation of signage on the road, a speed reducer and installation of a sign announcing the location of the campus to avoid accidents.

Chamber candidate Gustavo Orozco protested homicides in Cali - Cali - Colombia

At the edge of the Plazoleta Jairo Varela, in front of the Municipal Administrative Center (CAM), the scene seemed terrifying. On the platform there were several black bagslong and stuffed as if they were corpses that caught the attention of several people who were circulating in the area in the morning hours.

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In this way, the candidate for the Chamber of Representatives for Valle del Cauca, Gustavo Orozco, made a protest for the number of people who have died violently in the city, so that the Mayor’s Office of Cali “improves the security mechanisms and guarantees the lives of the people of Cali.”

“The safety of Caleños has to be their priority, we are tired of being robbed and killed. The figures are overwhelming, they show the reality of the city as the Colombian capital of homicide and reflect the great fear felt by the people of Cali, since the situation is getting worse every day. We need the mayor to put on his pants, take responsibility for him as the first public order authority and do the most basic thing: protect us, ”said Orozco.

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For the candidate, the blockades during the national strike that led to an increase in criminal acts increased until he had a panorama in which the city and Valle del Cauca have suffered attacks that have generated terror.

In Gustavo Orozco’s protest, the black bags simulated murdered people.

Gustavo Orozco demanded strong measures against crime.

“What is happening is an expansion of the guerrilla, dissidents, drug traffickers and small criminal structures that seek to dispute the territory and the drug markets. We are seeing a worsening of that reality, but worse still, the disinterest of local leaders in handling the situation, in addition to the negligence of the National Government to ignore the region with the highest concentration of criminal phenomena in the entire country,” says Orozco.

Start of the year with fewer homicides

For his part, the mayor of Cali, Jorge Iván Ospina, highlighted that in this last month the homicide rate was reduced by 21 percent compared to the same date last year.

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The president details that this in the first month of this year there have been 72 violent deaths, less than last year where 86 occurred.

According to data provided by the Security Observatory, in a partial way, this 2022 the homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants for the current year corresponds to 37.2, that is, it is the lowest rate in the last 38 years; 54 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants by 2021 and 47.5 by e

#AchievementsInSecurity | The balance of January 2022 resulted in the beginning of the year with the lowest number of homicides in the last 30 years, as well as: 👇

✅356 captured for different crimes.

✅246 weapons seized.

We remain committed to the safety of our city. pic.twitter.com/7Pg8GiGraf

– Security and Justice (@SeguridadCali) February 2, 2022

“We have been in a strategy for five months with the Metropolitan Police, the CTI, the Prosecutor’s Office, the Inpec and some intelligence agencies. We are doing work with the Gaula, placing some devices with all the cross-referenced information from the oldest Security Observatory in southwestern Colombia; With this information, communes, neighborhoods, hours of greatest occurrence of homicides, what causes them, what days of the week, the hours, and an intervention has been carried out, in addition to daily monitoring, “said the Secretary of Security and Justice , Carlos Javier Soler Parra.

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