Calarcá’s dissent freezes with threats a reforestation project to present it as its own initiative

On an unpaved road, in the rural area of Cartagena del Chairá, to the south of Colombia, wooden signs stand out between the weeds. “Forbidden tree felling” is read in letters barely visible by the mud. About twenty meters later, the landscape refutes the warning: a clearing with still-tiznated trunks and ash-covered branches, shows the fresh trail of logging and forest burning. In this region between the Andes and the Amazon, social leaders deno…

In Cartagena del Chairá (Caquetá), the region that connects the Andes with the Amazon, social leaders denounce that the dissidence of the Farc, led by alias Calarcá Córdoba, currently in peace negotiations with the government, forced to suspend a community reforestation project of 12,000 hectares. Subsequently, that same group would have appropriated it to present it as one of its environmental bets at the dialogue table, according to El País.Th…