In the Encuentro interview with Julio Villagrán, the director of RACDES, Zulma Larín, highlighted that a constitutional reform to article 69 that recognizes access to free water and food as a fundamental human right for the Salvadoran people has not been achieved.
“We have not yet achieved this constitutional reform, I hope this Assembly can, through an attitude of humanism, approve this constitutional reform in order to recognize a fundamental human right such as access to water and free food,” pointed out Larín.
He also mentioned that as RACDES they have worked closely with the communities, educating them on topics such as agroecology and human rights education, necessary for a country to develop.
One of the main strategies for this is to recognize that we all have human rights and the dimension that they have, when this happens citizens become subjects of law and will begin to demand them.
“What we must do is all unite to defend the water of this country, all unite to defend sovereignty and food security… because a country that fails to educate itself is condemned to live in underdevelopment all its life, here we have been like 60 years late”, highlighted the director of RACDES
He also pointed out that the state shows its absence in the country’s communities, they need to react to solve the population’s problems, that is why it is necessary for the communities to educate themselves as the fundamental element for development, in this way they can organize and achieve positive results.
“All the legal instruments that one can seek to argue the complaints are not achieved, there you see the absence of the state… What we do can mitigate and help but we need the community, organizations and the State to react,” highlights Larín.
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