This negotiation has been possible thanks to the peace talks that the Colombian government and the ELN undertook in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas.
Gustavo Petro regretted that violence and displacement of communities “have returned to Murindó, a dying municipality”, since the Embera people have been victims of different forms of violence that have ended up taking away “the tranquility of living in their territories”.
“Murindó, undoubtedly, is an excluded municipality in Antioquia. It should not be like that. Murindó is from ethnic majorities: indigenous and Afro-descendant. Politically, Murindó also does not behave like most municipalities in Antioquia.
Murindó is a socially organized municipality affected by violence, and the violence is practically displacing its population,” said the Colombian president.
Petro also made a call to replicate this type of agreement so that other communities can recover their territories. A day before, he spoke about the injustices that the Colombian countryside has also suffered.
