Two NGOs defending the rights of peasant communities in Colombia have denounced the assassination of the social leader Luz Marina Arteaga after the warning from the Colombian authorities that this Monday the lifeless body of a woman was recovered in the Meta River as it passes through the municipality of Orocué, in the department of Casanare. The Claretian Norman Pérez Bello Corporation and the Yira Castro Legal Corporation have confirmed that, indeed, the located body belongs to the activist, who was unaccounted for since the middle of last week. In addition, both groups have recalled that, previously, they had already demanded from the National Protection Unit an allocation of “measures” for Arteaga “according to his security situation and economic condition due to the imminent risk of leading the Human Rights and land process. with the communities. “We demand that the authorities speed and transparency in the investigation of the facts, as well as the immediate protection of the other leaders and defenders who are threatened,” the corporations said in a statement.
The Orocué authorities have reported this Monday the discovery of the lifeless body of a woman on the banks of the Meta River, and have recognized that the disappearance of the victim had already been reported around January 13 after leaving her farm located in Puerto Gaitán, in the department of Meta. “Here in the municipality of Orocué these things almost never happen, but you have to face it and get the competent authorities to find out how she died, it is not ruled out that she drowned,” said the mayor of Orocué, Monchi Moreno, picks up BLU Radio.
Thus, the authorities have not yet ruled on the identity of the deceased, although both corporations and residents of the area have assured that it would be the social activist.
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