Financial speculation, investments related to drug trafficking, gunmen hired by landowners, judges bought by mafias and forced evictions of peasants are part of this complex system, being its background an area of wetlands in the basin of Sinu River.

A few days ago, hundreds of peasants of the Association of Producers for Community Development of Cienaga Grande del Bajo Sinu (Asprocig) carried out a peaceful demonstration to denounce the situation of 75 families of the area, who suffer the permanent attacks of local landowners to leave their lands.

This is done with the complicity of the Colombian government. Asprocig states it is absurd that now the authorities are establishing that the lands in question are private property, when a constitutional tribunal had declared them of public use.

Real World Radio interviewed Juan Jose Lopez Negrete, executive secretary of Asprocig, who told us about the current situation, in face of the beginning of the second phase of the Urra project, despite the fact that the peasant and indigenous communities, mainly fisher communities, have still not recovered from the impacts caused by Urra I dam.