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.