Uribia is located in the department of La Guajira. and it is one of the poorest municipalities in Colombia.
All the basic needs come together there, such as sewage, aqueduct, food and education among othersthat is, it is the perfect scenario for corruption, It has a population of almost 200 thousand inhabitants, of which 40% are minors.
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According to the accounts of corruption made by this media, both Olmedo Lopez and Sneyder Pinilla committed more than 500 billion pesos to the UNGRD Only for the municipality of Uribia, contracts for the purchase and rental of tank trucks, yellow machinery, construction of jagueyes, community pots and desalination plants, among others, are recorded here.
To understand the dimension of corruption, Continue La W did an analysis to find out what that money could have been invested in in the region:
With 500 billion pesos, 60 mega schools with the best infrastructure could have been built in Uribia, 200 desalination plants with a capacity of 50 thousand liters per day, 10 urban aqueducts and, most surprisingly, 150 kilometers of the Cabo de Perimetral road could have been built. the Vela/Nazareth.
What would that road represent for the Wayúu people?
The perimeter road from Uribia to Nazareth would cross the entire Wayúuu desert and the road would be the one that, in a marked way, sand would become the spearhead of the eradication of hunger and thirst, This road would have a cost of 1.2 billion pesos for 300 kilometers.
This highway would bring the entire Wayúu territory closer to institutional offerings such as:
- Drinking water, baby food
- Food security, vehicles that have food could supply communities,
- The economic level derived from the highway would increase purchasing power because there would be commerce, therefore the solution that the government has refused to study has to do with the construction of the perimeter road.
Since this route does not exist, Upper Guajira, Uribia, is at the mercy of the merchants of politics and the public budget.
The half billion pesos from the UNGRD that ended in Uribia, in La Guajira. Photo: W Radio.
