Renzo García
Renzo Alexander García Parra | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | Tolima, Colombia |
| Citizenship | Colombian |
| Residence | Ibagué |
| Alma mater | Universidad del Tolima |
| Occupation | Environmentalist, Biologist |
Renzo Alexander García Parra (born in October 1977 in Ibagué) is a biologist and magister in conflict and culture from the University of Tolima. He is nationally known for achieving the suspension of the La Colosa mining project through a popular consultation, as well as his defense of the environment in Colombia.[1][2] Currently he is candidate for Mayor of Ibagué.
La Colosa Mining Project Suspension[edit]
La Colosa is the open pit cyanide leaching mining project that the South African multinational AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) proposes to exploit in the foothills of the Central Cordillera of Colombia. It is located in the department of Tolima, more precisely in the municipality of Cajamarca (Veredas La Luisa and La Paloma), 37 km from the city of Ibagué. The project is located in the upper part of the Greater Coello River Basin, in areas of the Central Forest Reserve of Colombia, a geographical region of high environmental value for sustaining natural processes, social, economic, ecological and cultural, destined exclusively to the establishment, maintenance and rational use of productive, protective or productive-protective forest areas. [3]
The mining title data, cut to October 2010, confirm that of the approximate 51,528 hectares that comprise the total area of the Municipality of Cajamarca, 44,276 hectares, that is, 85.93% of the area of the municipality, were under 31 mining titles granted to nine holders.[4][5]
Some social leaders from the municipality of Cajamarca, researchers and national consultants, including Renzo, considered that the La Colosa mining project could generate irreversible damage and socio-environmental liabilities, given its location on high mountain ecosystems and a region of high water wealth, biodiverse and agri-food. In the words of one of the founders of the organization Conciencia Campesina "the Colosa project, in its explotation phase, can generate serious ecological problems, division of the community, change in the productive vocation of the municipality, loss of food sovereignty, insecurity and increasing social problems”.[6] In this regard, the Multinational pointed out that, on the contrary, it was a great opportunity to strengthen the productivity of the region.
Concerns and disagreements among the inhabitants around the project, make the citizens led by Renzo to promote a popular consultation, a legal mechanism instituted in Colombia designed to quantify through votes, their position, which was contrary to the mining project achieving its provisional suspension. However, AngloGold is currently requesting its resumption, while the community requests its definitive suspension. [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Santurban Páramo Defense and Fracking opposition[edit]
At the end of 2019, together with the organization Colombia Libre de Fracking and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, he participated in an event for the Design of Strategies in Defense of the Páramo de Santurbán and opposition to Fracking, which would be attended by several environmental leaders, including personalities public as the actress Carolina Cuervo, Cony Camelo, Julián Román among other environmental activists like Estéfany Grajales, René Jimenez, Hermán Vergara and Luis Carlos Rúa. In the event also Renzo and the Foundation, presented the book "Huellas de la Energía".[16] From this event, the strategy still in force today was built, which achieved the suspension of the exploitation license of the Minesa Multinational for the exploitation of the Páramo de Santurbán, as well as the pedagogical strategy to present its opposition to the Fracking policy promoted by the government of former president Iván Duque.[17]
Carnival March[edit]
It is a periodic artistic expression carried out initially in the city of Ibagué but today of a national character where environmentalists, including popular organizations organize a march that includes troupes, dances, artistic presentations, among other expressions, as a way of rejecting all Fracking, mining extraction, and the defense of the páramos.[18][19][20][21] Currently there are several degree theses that portray the public call achieved by these mobilizations.[22] [23][24] This type of event was developed by the environmentalist Renzo Alexander García, as an environmental defense measure.[25][26]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Se realizó audiencia pública, sobre el derecho a la participación en el contexto de proyectos de exploración y explotación de recursos naturales". www.camara.gov.co (in español). Retrieved 2023-06-21.
- ↑ "No se pierda hoy la X Gran Marcha Carnaval en defensa del agua, la vida y el territorio". Patrimonio Radial del Tolima Ecos del Combeima Ibagué. 2018-06-08. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
- ↑ SEMILLAS, GRUPO. "La Colosa, proyecto de minería a cielo abierto de lixiviación con cianuro". sitio Web Semillas.org.co (in español). Retrieved 2023-06-22.
- ↑ "The Colosse: a death announced" (PDF).
- ↑ "Social representations of the concept of development in strategic actors La Colosa mining project, Cajarma, Colombia" (PDF). Flacso.
- ↑ May, Sibylle (2015), "Personal", Das Checklistenbuch, Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag, pp. 109–147, doi:10.1007/978-3-8349-4701-7_8, ISBN 978-3-8349-4700-0, retrieved 2023-06-21
- ↑ Tiempo, Casa Editorial El (2017-04-27). "Without extracting a gram of gold, the La Colosa project stops dead". El Tiempo (in spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-21.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "They ask the Council of State to maintain the suspension of environmental permits for the La Colosa mine". infobae (in español). 21 April 2022. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
- ↑ S.A.S, Editorial La República. "The effects that the brake on the Quebradona and La Colosa mining projects would generate". Diario La República (in español). Retrieved 2023-06-21.
- ↑ Portafolio. "AngloGold suspends La Colosa gold project in the municipality of Cajamarca". Portafolio.co (in spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-21.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Semana (2017-04-27). "AngloGold Ashanti leaves (for now) Cajamarca". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-21.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "What happened to La Colosa?". W Radio (in español). 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
- ↑ Tiempo, Casa Editorial El (2017-03-24). "In suspense, the environmental destination of Tolima". El Tiempo (in spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-21.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Tiempo, Casa Editorial El (2013-12-10). "The report that bothers one of the largest mining companies in Colombia". El Tiempo (in spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-21.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ ""The consultation in Ibagué seeks to stop the mining dictatorship of Santos"". Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca - CRIC (in español). 5 January 2016.
- ↑ "Huellas de la Energía: un libro que compila cuentos, poemas, cómics e ilustraciones | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Bogotá office - Colombia". Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (in español). Retrieved 2023-06-22.
- ↑ "La ANLA archiva licencia para proyecto de minería en el páramo de Santurbán". KienyKe (in español). Retrieved 2023-06-21.
- ↑ "Thousands of people participated in the carnival march in Ibagué". Caracol Radio (in español). 2021-05-15. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
- ↑ Espectador, El (2022-06-09). "Carnival March will take over the streets of Ibagué again". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-21.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "This is how the route of the Carnival March was lived through the streets of Ibagué". Patrimonio Radial del Tolima Ecos del Combeima Ibagué. 2022-06-10. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
- ↑ "Music joins the Carnival March with a concert by Aterciopelados". Canal Trece. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
- ↑ "Documental: la colosa, lamentos de una montaña" (PDF). Universidad Católica de Pereira.
- ↑ "Educational practices of social organizations anti-mining in Cajamarca - Tolima". Fundación Universidad Autónoma de Colombia.
- ↑ "La consulta popular en Cajamarca, Tolima. "Si frenamos La Colosa, frenamos cualquier cosa"" (PDF). Uniminuto.
- ↑ Semana (2019-05-13). "Fracking and mining return to the streets". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-21.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "This is how they took the IX Carnival March against polluting mining". Alcaldía de Ibagué.
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