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Medellin's EPM kicks flood victims out of shelter, denying them compensation
by Maryanne Schiffman May 13, 2019
Victims of the disastrous Hidroituango dam project on Tuesday will be removed from their refugee shelter while Medellin energy company EPM refuses to compensate damages or help them find homes after the victims lost theirs in the flood caused by the company.
According to Isabel Zuleta of Rios Vivos, a social movement fighting for the rights of Hidroituango’s victims, officials of Ituango’s city hall showed up last week at the shelter and told the last 18 people living there it was time for them to pack up and leave, claiming “they’ve had a year to get jobs and places to live: it’s time to go.”
According to Ríos Vivos, these refugees cannot leave because EPM has still not compensated them for the loss of their possessions nor found them a place to live.
The attempted eviction is just the latest standoff in a judicial game of ping pong that began last September, when Ituango’s city hall filed a complaint demanding that the 22 families then housed in the municipal sports facility be ordered to leave because their presence “affected the rights of the children of Ituango to recreate.”
More:
https://colombiareports.com/medellins-epm-refuses-to-compensate-flood-victims-kicks-refugees-out-of-shelter/
