So far this year, young men affected by the internal armed conflict have access to this reparation measure.

The Victims Unit reported that on August 1 this year, there are around 6.2 million victims subject to attention by the State. Of these, 341,573 are in the department of Magdalena.

Aware that there are people affected by the conflict who have not yet defined their military situation, the Unit for the Victims and the Chief Recruiting Department of the National Army joined forces for the third day of delivery of military books in the department, which had place in AGROSEC, located in the northern part of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in the village of La Secreta, district of Siberia, in the municipality of Ciénaga.

"The fact that both the Mayor’s Office and the Victims Unit come to these regions so remote to give these young people the freedom to access any labor supply brings us a feeling of joy, but also of responsibility, which invites us to continue working in this type of process," said Edgardo Perez Diaz, mayor of Ciénaga.

180 military cards were given to young victims of forced displacement, which in its Plan of Care, Assistance and Reparation (PAARI, in Spanish) expressed the need to resolve their military situation. With these, more than 630 books of this type have already been delivered free of charge to young victims of Magdalena.

"This is an ongoing exercise. In March we delivered 300 military cards in the District of Santa Marta, then continued in Aracataca with more than 150 military books and today we continue in the municipality of Cienaga at the entrance of La Secreta, which is for us a very symbolic space," said the territorial director of the Unit for the Victims in Magdalena, Carlos Ortiz Ruiz.

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