hydroituango is the subject that has met, since 4:00 in the followingnoon, the president Gustavo Petro and the Mayor of Medellín, daniel quintero.
The president, apparently, took advantage of his visit to the capital of Antioquia to discuss the megaproject with Quintero. And it is that, from the Government there have been objections regarding the risk that the hydroelectric plant might generate to the communities downstream.
for this meeting the agent would not have taken possession, in Bogotá, of Juan Carlos Cortés as a magistrate of the Constitutional Court, and Marjorie Zuñiga as a magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice. In his place was the Legal Secretary of the Presidency, Vladimir Fernández.
This Wednesday, November 30, when the deadline for turning on the first turbines expired, XM, which is the operator of the National Interconnected System and administrator of the Wholesale Energy Market, confirmed that it received communication from EPM in which it declared , once the requirements established in the current regulations have been met, the entry into operation of units 1 and 2 of the 290 MW project starting at 00:00 on Thursday, December 1, 2022.
EPM informed at 7:44 am this Wednesday that units 1 and 2 met all the requirements for entry into commercial operation, complying with Creg Resolution 194 of 2020, although it clarified that the plant will only be able to generate constantly and permanently when the actions ordered by the same Commission are carried out.
What was President Petro doing in Medellín this Wednesday?
President Petro attended a forgiveness event with the victims of the massacres of the corregimientos Ring (October 25, 1997) and The farm (June 11, 1996), located in Ituango.
In the event that took place at the Casa de la Memoria Museum and in compliance with a ruling that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court HR) issued in 2006, the president apologized on behalf of the State to the victims following naming them one by one.
“On behalf of the State, I ask the victims for forgiveness. The Colombian State recognizes that the dead were not enemies of anyone, they were humble and hardworking people, that they were killed for no reason, by design of power, and that in their deaths, in La Granja and in El Aro, the State was present, it was accomplice to the murder,” said Petro.
He further added that:The statethrough public officials paid with the taxes of the entire Colombian society, ordered to kill and wanted to hide the perpetrators inside and outside the State of that murder.”
Petro also took advantage of the event to criticize that these cases go unpunished because the judicial processes do not reach the causes and the material and intellectual authors.
“The State might have corrected its course at the right time, but the judicial processes, the investigations, the institution that we call the Prosecutor’s Office and others were not capable because they did not have the political will, first of all, to discover the origins of a systematic murder of civilians throughout Colombia,” he said.
