After a meeting between the District Secretariat of Government, the CRIC’s Senior Counselor and the Ministry of the Interior, it was decided to place the members of the mobilization in the Parque El Renacimiento, whose objective is to request the government’s intervention in the territories of the southwest of the country that have been most affected by the armed conflict.

To this respect, the Ministry of the Interior committed itself to coordinate the corresponding logistics for the adequacy of the Park, including sanitary units, medical unit, showers, tents, public services points, among others.

In addition, it will organize the agenda with the Government for the articulation of dialogue tables with the CRIC, while it is expected that President Gustavo Petro will directly receive the indigenous representatives in the Casa de Nariño to listen to their demands and proposals.

The senior counselor of the CRIC Jair Mosquera, revealed to RTVC Noticias that an advance team integrated by the Senior Counselor of that organization, and elders of the different peoples, guide the walk of the minga in the capital, “for the defense of the territory, peace and life in the department of Cauca and southwestern Colombia”.

The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca leads the 138 indigenous authorities belonging to the Nasa, Yanakuna, Kokonuko, Misak, Ambaló peoples, among others.

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