Outrage and rejection generated comments by the mayor of Carmen de Bolívar Carlos Torres, on the security situation of social leader Yirley Velasco. In the statements made by the president on the radio station La W, he indicated that it was a simple kiosk and not the house that incinerated the human rights defender, and he also stated that there are no illegal armed groups in the area.
“We do not have the presence of guerrillas in Carmen de Bolívar, we have the problem that most Colombians have, which is the problem of drug trafficking... we do not have a presence here of guerrillas or paramilitaries, we have problems of microtrafficking... The peasant lives and is calm in their lands... El Salado is the most sheltered district in Colombia” were part of the statements made by Mayor Carlos Torres.
The broadcaster La W also provided the opportunity for the human rights defender to express herself regarding Torres' statements. “I think you have witnessed that it is not the first time the president has given statements of stigmatization towards me and all the leaders... The peasants they know very well say that the ranch was burned from the inside and part of the roof of my house also burned,” commented Yirley Velasco, adding that the kiosk that burned is a place where they cook so it is a fundamental part of the house.
Yirley also questioned the fact that the president of Carmen de Bolívar was unaware of the local criminal actors and pointed to Mayor Torres' neglect and ignorance of human rights defenders: “When people from the Gulf Clan are captured, the mayor goes out to announce it but when we leaders came out to say that there is a presence of armed groups so they say it is a lie, so we must believe them, but shouldn't we believe the leaders? , if there is a presence of armed groups, they are threatening and killing us”, said the leader.
Another controversial thing that Mayor Carlos Torres mentioned was that you shouldn't believe all kinds of information, but only 'you have to believe the authorities': “There is a lot of commentary; I was born in El Salado, there are a lot of comments and here we have to decant a lot about the comments that are born that they saw, that they made. Let me give an example: a few months ago we did a Security Council that saw some people in I don't know where, we called people and nobody saw anything, so it turns out that it didn't happen.”
This was widely reproached by Yirley Velasco, who mentioned that in those Security Councils, human rights defenders are not taken into account and that the mayor is' lying 'by ignoring the illegal armed organizations operating in Carmen de Bolivar.
“I am going to formally file a complaint against Mayor Carlos Torres del Carmen de Bolívar and I am going to hold him responsible for anything that happens to me, because it is not the first time and the mayor says so in several places that I am the one who threatened me,” concluded Yirley Velasco, emphasizing the stigmatization that President Torres would be exercising.
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