The mayor and those affected considered humanitarian aid "timely" while the conditions for a safe return are in place.

The Unit for the Comprehensive Attention and Reparation to Victims continues to care for the 18 families after their forced displacement from the La Esperanza village of Tarazá, due to threats by an illegal armed group.

"The 77 people declared their victimizing act, which was valued with status of inclusion in the Single Registry of Victims and which gives access to emergency humanitarian aid and includes an economic resource for accommodation and food for each family", said the director of the Unit in Antioquia, Wilson Córdoba Mena during a follow-up visit to the temporary shelter.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Tarazá, Miguel Ángel Gómez, valued as “timely the attention and accompaniment that the Victims Unit has given us with these trips with emergency prevention professionals and they have always been attentive and have told Tarazá are not alone”.

The official also highlighted the delivery of "food kits, humanitarian aid and compensation that have reached our most vulnerable communities to mitigate the needs that are happening in these times of pandemic".

Six of the families are still housed in the shelter in the urban area, which acknowledged the care received by the Victims Unit, in coordination with the Government and the local mayor's office and international cooperation agencies such as the Norwegian Council to guarantee accommodation, food, and biosecurity measures during the pandemic.

"We are forced because the two-armed groups are there and the truth is that we have received good aid and we hope that they can give us security to return to our homes, because we left them abandoned", said one of the displaced people.

The inhabitants of the village, belonging to La Caucana township, were displaced by the threat of an illegal armed group in early June.

Since last year, more than 5 billion pesos have been allocated to guarantee shelter, food and immediate humanitarian aid to displaced families in Antioquia, most of them from Bajo Cauca and Norte de department.

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