A controversial draft decree would be heating up, just a few days before the marches that the president Gustavo Petro scheduled for May 1, and that would impact the call lifting property cadastral throughout Colombia.
This controversial project It leaves many doubts about the power that the indigenous people will have to issue the documentation for the properties, and about the effects that the initiative that is ready for the presidential signature would have.
What is the cadastre in the ownership of a property?
In general terms, it would be the “certificate” of a property. That is, it is the photo descriptive of an asset or property in Colombia, which contains all the information about it.
This document is traditionally issued by the Agustín Codazzi Geographic Institute and is coordinated by cadastral managers.
What are the changes proposed by Gustavo Petro?
This decree would launch an issue that had already been raised for years, but that would now remain on the table, and it is a modification that would grant ethnic communities the power to lift the cadastral information and issue the “ID cards” of the properties.
This project would establish that ethnic communities, As cadastral operators, they will be able to establish cadastral information, and therefore, they will have power in relation to those assets in which they have territorial aspirations.
Thus, ethnic communities such as indigenous or Afro people will be able to create this type of important documentation for themselves.and grant an attribution or a principle of good law over the assets.
What could be the consequences of the decree?
Much confusion has been generated by the power that ethnic communities will have over assets in the country.since they question that they themselves would be in charge of issuing the cadastre and would have power over lands where they have not even been.
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