Leaders maintain that the money for car transportation and the contracts are surely signed, but they do not comply
When Endry Pacheco took a photograph of a donkey cart that had a tent in the back so that the passengers could get relief from the hot sun and the aggressive temperature that is felt in Alta Guajira, he only thought that he had achieved a picturesque photograph and a wonderful postcard of its municipality so that it could be seen by its friends on the networks, but the truth is different, because it is destined to become one of the most evident testimonies of the ungenerous way in which administrations have handled the billions to make transportation possible. of children between their homes and educational establishments.
A wooden cart with a plastic tent that prevents the rain from passing through, but which helps the ambient temperature rise by at least three degrees more, is pulled by a noble donkey that looks nothing like Platero, the one from the fable, because this one is bay in color.
The cart, the donkey, the minor who drives it and at least 20 children from a Community Early Childhood Care Unit (UCA), with a slow pace, something different from how budgets are available for education in this region , they travel through the steppes of Alta Guajira to deliver the children to each of the parents. There are several kilometers to travel each day, on each trip.
The teacher Isidro Ibarrarector of an institution in Manaure, maintains that this is the result of the actions that have been developed at the national level where every time important resources are wanted for La Guajira, the opposition crosses and defeats those intentions with ignoble machinery. “These things are no longer strange and are common on the dirt roads of Manaure, Uribia, Maicao and Riohachaprecisely the municipalities that were prioritized to solve their problems in the ruling T302 that declared the State of Affairs Unconstitutional in La Guajira”.
The social leader and former candidate for mayor of Uribia, Wilder Martinezwho prefers to be identified by his neighborhood nickname ‘Cotorrita’ is more direct and maintains that “What has happened is because of the bad rulers that Uribia has had, it is that this is a municipality certified in education and it is the Mayor’s Office that must provide the resources, but it does not invest them in education, as it should be, but rather they have those resources for issues that are not a priority”.
He maintains that, if an effective investigation is carried out by the Attorney General’s Office, now that they have that evidence, they will find that more than one car has been hired that should be transporting those and other children from our northern municipalities that are the most abandoned in La Guajira.
