Fecode demands guarantees for teachers at risk

Teachers therefore had more reason to ask the government to take action on the risk posed by educators as they became targets of outlaw groups

. According to Fecode in the country there are 150 teachers threatened and three murders were presented.

To protests for threats against his life, professors added non-compliance for the Government's violations with agreements that he succeeded in the previous year's unemployment

What do the professors, it is that in addition to fulfilling the commitments that the government has already made with them, campaigns are being conducted so that the insurgent groups remain out of educational institutions and teachers.

"Teacher safety guarantees and social campaigns are urgently needed to promote schools as peace territories, as armed actors kill teachers and intimidate the educational community in different parts of the country," Fecode said. a statement.

He noted "the failure of the government to abide by the agreements signed with the code last year."

"All of these and other disadvantages are items included in the record, which shows that the establishment does not have the truth to say that it has respected. "

THE STOP IN THE HUILA [19659004] In Huila all Teachers affiliated with Fecode participated in the 24-hour strike. There were steps to Neiva, Garzón, Pitalito and La Plata, among other municipalities.

With banners and harangues, teachers marched through the main streets to raise awareness of the issues they face, especially those working in remote areas. "In Huila, the threat process continues against the teaching profession, about 15 teachers have been threatened, some have been displaced according to the particular situation of each, and other cases are being studied and investigated. are temporarily located at the Ministry of Education ", explained the president of the Huilenses Institute Association, Adih, José Luis Castellanos.

The school principal said that he was very concerned because the processes that are deployed to protect teachers threatened are not the most complete they can offer at any given time.

"The teacher arrives with the threat process until the secretary of education is relocated, but at no point is there a study at the school. 39, where it will arrive.In addition, there is no accompaniment, that is to say, they can get out of La Troja, Baraya, to send it In La Arcadia, Algeciras, then the process is not the best, we are in an extremely serious situation, you really have to put it back in an area where there is no danger, "Castellanos said.

The president of Adih stressed that it was time for the authorities to start designing a new form of protection for teachers and social leaders under threat.Most cases were filed this year.

"It's a situation that requires all the attention and the adjustment of the rules, that you look at the degree of the situation and take the best decision. administrative decision to guarantee the life of the teachers, "concluded Castellanos.

LEADERS CAMPESINOS THREATENED

For its part, Lorena Sánchez, head of the Peasant Workers' Association, warned that the situation in Huila is alarming because of the threat to social leaders and the presence of individuals who identify as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)

"We want to give the alarm and we l & # 39; But before the authorities refuse to recognize that there is a paramilitary presence in the region, it is very difficult for us to go forward, "explained Lorena Sánchez.

adding that governments are directly responsible for what might happen to social leaders. in Huila Department

"We want at this time to hold the national, county and local government responsible for what might happen to our social leaders in Huila.This is not the first time we denounce this. Complaints filed before the entities have already been made and the established protocol route has been completed.The accompaniment was done to our peasant communities, but this generates a moment of terror and panic among the villagers, "said Sánchez.

He pointed out that at that time the peasants are without the right to badociation, freedom of expression and threatened, that is when the leaders need sufficient guarantees to be able to them. accompany and denounce any victimizing event.

Teachers Killed in July 2018

Yesterday, just as teachers across the country prepared for protest by badbadinations and threats they are subject to, unknown murdered in the department of Putumayo Professor Luis Gabriel Gómez Acosta, rector of the Educational Institution Bajo Lorenzo, in rural area of ​​the municipality of Puerto Asís

The Secretary of Education of the Department of Putumayo, Luis Carlos Guevara, dismissed the crime of the director of education, adding that up to the moment the motives for the homicide are not known. And he said that in this region there is a large number of teachers threatened.

In Caquetá

On July 16, Professor Juan de Jesús Moreno was murdered in Curillo, Caquetá. He had just arrived at the school when he was attacked by a man who shot him in the chest.

Several students and a teacher witnessed the death of Moreno. The teacher traveled every weekend to Florence, more than five hours, to go to El Horizonte School, located in the village of Remolinos, Curillo, Caquetá, to teach their students.

The day he was killed to his students, when the attack that took his life took place. Three years ago, the educator was transferred to Curillo for threats against him in the municipality of Cartagena del Chairá.

There is still no clarity as to the motives of the crime. Juan de Jesús was survived by a pregnant woman, also a teacher, and three other girls.

Representatives of the Magisterium of Caquetá, said that despite peace agreements with the Farc, the situation of teachers remains pressing in the department. The Ministry of Education of Caquetá manages the figure of 27 educators who have been displaced for threats against their lives and their families.

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