Within the framework of compensating the victims of the armed conflict, the Victims Unit allocated 8 billion pesos to 823 victims of Magdalena during the month of June, 2024. These deliveries respond to the high interest that the national government has in complying with the goal of fully compensating people over 68 years of age with high-cost illnesses, in conditions of disability and who have been waiting for the compensation measure for more than 20 years.
$1,252 million were received by 152 victims who live between Aracataca and Fundación, $2. 765 million 309 victims of Santa Marta, $1,446 million 142 Victims of Pivijay, $1,195 million 125 victims of Ciénaga, 162 million 19 victims of Ariguaní.
$185 million 21 victims of Cerro San Antonio, $259 million 25 victims of Chibolo, $180 million 25 victims of El Banco, $488 million 54 victims of Plato, $293 million 28 victims of Sabanas de San Ángel, among other small amounts for victims of the municipalities of San Sebastián and Santa Ana Magdalena.
“For the government of change, each day of delivery of compensation is a reason for satisfaction. I extend my greetings from President Gustavo Petro Urrego and Vice President Francia Márquez. I tell them that they have placed the victims at the center of the National Development Plan, Colombia, World Power of Life, and therefore there are strategies to advance in the delivery of compensation measures accompanied by other measures such as satisfaction and rehabilitation measures,” said the territorial director of the Unit for the victims of Magdalena, Audes Jiménez González, at the delivery on June 25.
The sessions were held from 7:00 in the morning until 01:00 pm at the victim care points in Magdalena and at the regional care center located in Santa Marta; The victims and their companions received talks on the appropriate use of resources, access to psychosocial care, registration of young people to access a military record, routes to strengthen ventures and guidance to access the offer of the entities attached to the National Care System and Reparation for Victims – SNARIV. Furthermore, in all sessions it is emphasized that upon receiving their compensation they are not excluded from the Single Registry of Victims.
Jacinto González, a 72-year-old adult, told part of his story and the plans he has with the economic resource that the state has given him for not having been there for him and his family when the events happened.
“I had a billiards business, I was displaced by the presence of the groups and the extortion they did to me, I did not have the money to pay them weekly and I left my town for more than 5 years; I came back and I had lost all my clothing, I had no way to start: so I sold. Today my house and billiard business are worth more than 200 million; it is impossible for me to recover that equity; With the money I received I am going to invest it in my business, I sell beer at fairs and corralejas in the towns, I have always been a merchant,” he expressed in the context of the deliveries made by the Magdalena Territorial Directorate in the month of June.
In the Victims Unit “We change to serve” with the aim of continuing to work on actions towards the implementation of a policy that contributes to overcoming gaps, provides transformative reparation and allows those who have suffered from the armed conflict effectively access their rights.
