insurrección

Colombian organizations filed an accusation against French-Spanish corporation Proactiva Medio Ambiente at the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT), held in parallel to the meeting of Heads of State and Government of the European Union and Latin America. They accuse the company of the appropriation of fresh water sources, the high and excluding tariffs, the complicity of the Colombian authorities and the impunity that covers their activity. The privatization of drinking water in Colombia has been focused on the Caribbean region, although it extended to the rest of the country. In the case of Proactiva, the company has damaged the landscape and caused territorial fragmentation by trying to implement sewage water posts in residential areas. The company has failed to observe tariff agreements reached between the no longer exisiting public services companies and the consumers, and it currently charges tariffs that some people just can’t afford.

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