Government of Colombia presents strategic project for the development of Cauca
The Colombian government presents initiatives to promote the departmental development plan in Cauca, which will be the roadmap for improving the quality of life of all citizens. teleSUR
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00:00We stay in Colombia as on instructions from the President, a delegation comprised of Ministers
00:06and several Directors arrived on Sunday in the Department of Cauca.
00:10The Ministers of Defense, Mines, Environment, Agriculture, Science and Technology and Health,
00:15as well as several Directors of National Institutions and Agencies arrived in the town of El Plateado.
00:21The area historically plagued by violence and more recently taken over by a dissident
00:25group of the FARC, will now be able, together with the Executive Branch, to jointly design
00:30and develop projects.
00:32In preliminary information, it was learned that progress will be made in seven projects
00:37focused on the economic transformation of the communities and an authority for various areas.
00:48Control has really been established in the Plateado, something that has not happened
00:53for at least the last six years, which is a presence that will be permanent.
00:57But it is not only the presence of the public forces in the Plateado, it is above all the
01:02presence of the government as a whole, to develop social programs.
01:07The President has said that peace is the transformation of the territory.
01:13Defense Minister Iván Velásquez also explained part of the working day with the community.
01:20We, the executors of these ideas of the President, define with the population how we can make
01:27this transformation of the territory.
01:29What have I observed in the conversation?
01:35We have been walking around El Plateado for about an hour.
01:39We have talked to hundreds of people.
01:40There is a concern.
01:42Is it that you are coming to destroy the cocaine and leave us starving?
01:45Are you going to leave us without work?
01:48And we have answered them that all the project that is going to be developed in El Plateado,
01:53all this project of transformation of the territory, is in agreement with you, in agreement
01:57with the community.