The Colombia Plan for the masses of our country brought with it the greatest number of displaced in history, a strong repression of the popular and student movement, the increase in massacres against the masses and the great strengthening of paramilitarism.
From the government of Juan Manuel Santos in 2015, a series of permits and constructions are carried out on the Gorgona Island, in the municipality of Guapi, department of Cauca to build a guide substation financed by the United States International Anti -Narcotics Assistance Office. The historical excuse of Yankee imperialism to gain greater military control of our nation is the war against drug trafficking. The same justification used in 1999 with the implementation of Plan Colombia, which implied financing of more than 10,000 million dollars, the greatest military financial support after the one granted to Israel.
The island has a key geostrategic position, it served much of the last century as a marketing and supply zone between Panama and Peru. Even so, US military forces say it is a necessity to control the island because 37% of coca cargo is transported annually.
They plan the construction of a 170 -meter spring, a tower with a surveillance radar at the highest point of the island, a tank to store 5,000 gallons of fuel and 3 buildings to accommodate the military and high controls of the army. In 2019 they finished the construction of the surveillance tower and in 2022, the Petro government already possessed, began the construction of the buildings and the fuel tank.
The indigenous communities of Guapi mobilized since 2015 against this project because it represented a great ecological threat to the great biodiversity that exists on the island and in that sense, for the work of the population of the area that are mostly dedicated to fishing . In addition, communities have warned a possible displacement of this sector with the excuse of United States military security; This happened on October 2 that while the island was closed and quarantically placed by an alleged avian flu, a helicopter with US personalities landed, next to the coast guard commander Javier Bermúdez and the head of the Gorgona National Park that stayed for 4 hours for 4 hours and analyzed the constructions made. This complaint was made by organizations of Guapi and Bazan.
For the protests and complaints made by the communities, Petro was pushed to Pausar the project in February 2023.
The Petro government has positioned itself as the most environmentalist in the continent, especially currently in the midst of the fires generated by the phenomenon of the child and the global climatic crisis generated by imperialism. However, it has not been clear about the claims of the indigenous peoples of Guapi that have been denouncing the ecological risk that represents the construction of the Yankee military base for more than 9 years. In fact, on January 24 he was in the municipality where he is able to notice the settlers claiming the situation with the Gorgona Island and demanding that they return their territory while Gustavo Petro hurries their withdrawal from the place.
That is the Lacayo's character of the opportunistic government that serves as a collaborator with Yankee imperialism to develop, strengthen and specify its greater control plans of our country by strengthening the semicolonial character of our society and deepening greater repression, displacement and suffering of the masses in areas in areas where the American army develops its reactionary plans.