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Colombian Congress to analyze declaration of Internal Unrest

Colombian Congress to analyze Declaration of Internal Unrest

Bogotá, Jan 28 (Prensa Latina) The House of Representatives and the Senate of Colombia will meet to analyze the government’s decree of Internal Unrest to end the state of insecurity that the Catatumbo region is going through.

The House of Representatives will present the reasons why the measure was taken. After the intervention of the congressmen of each party, a commission will be chosen to analyze the norm. The president of the House, Jaime Raúl Salamanca, commented that the objective is to listen to the authorities regarding the declaration of the state of emergency.

The Senate, in turn, will have 15 days to issue a statement presenting the body’s opinion.

On January 24th, the president and his entire cabinet signed the decree of Internal Unrest due to the power that the Constitution confers on them in situations that alter the normal development of the communities.

Once the state of emergency was declared, the Executive was authorized to “issue legislative norms to address the causes of the disturbance to public order and prevent the extension of its effects, for which it may, among others, suspend laws incompatible with this state of exception.”

The decree declares internal unrest for 90 days, starting from the date it comes into force, in the Catatumbo region, in the northeast of the department of Norte de Santander, in the municipalities of the metropolitan area of ​​Cúcuta, the capital of the department, and two others in the department of Cesar.

The decision responds to the insecurity unleashed in the Catatumbo region, where the National Liberation Army and Structure 33 are engaged in fighting, causing the displacement of more than 47 thousand people, an undetermined number of deaths, and nearly 24 thousand confined.

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