During six days, the head of State and his ministerial cabinet will visit the communities of Riohacha, Uribia and Nazareth, Albania, Manaure, Maicao, and others, where he will learn first hand about the population’s most pressing needs.

In those places, he will deliver property deeds, discuss wind energy projects, meet with the community and deliver pediatric facilities to address malnutrition and land for the construction of a halfway house and nutritional care, and a shelter for pregnant women.

Last week, the president announced actions to expedite compliance with the Constitutional Court ruling, which ordered in 2017 to protect the rights to water, food and health care of the Wayuu population.

“That week of government in La Guajira will show which institutions remain in rhetoric, where are the obstacles that must be removed to comply with the constitutional ruling,” Petro said.

In this regard, he stated that the projects in execution will be reviewed and his Executive will be bold in order to achieve that La Guajira joins a different dynamic, always with the participation of its society, mostly indigenous people.

This territory in the extreme north of Colombia is predominantly indigenous (the Wayuu people represent 48 percent of the Department’s population) and has the highest monetary poverty rate in the country (according to DANE, 67.4 percent in 2021).

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