They order 5 days of house arrest for Duque for disobeying a court order

The Superior Court of Ibagué ordered the house arrest for five days to the president ColombianIván Duque, for disobeying a court order to protect the Los Nevados National Natural Park, located in the Eje Cafetero region, declared a “subject of law” in 2020.

The sanction is due to the contempt of an order that had been issued by the Labor Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which declared the Nevados National Natural Park as a subject of rights.

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According to the ruling published by local media this Saturday, supposedly the government headed by Duke has not complied with the creation of a Special Command of the Public Force for environmental crimes in that national park.

The court order ordered “Impose house arrest for five days as a sanction”for whose fulfillment the director of the Colombian Police or the superior who attends the functions in the Palacio de Nariño, seat of the Executive, will be in charge.

The high court also ordered that a fine of fifteen legal monthly minimum wages be imposed on the Colombian head of state. “unless compliance with the order held as fulfilled is proven beforehand.”

In December 2020, the Supreme Court of Justice gave the national, departmental and local authorities a peremptory period of one year to implement a joint plan for the recovery, maintenance, management and conservation of the Los Nevados National Natural Park, which considered as a subject of rights to life, health and environment.

The Park is made up of five snow-capped peaks: Ruiz, Tolima, Cisne, Santa Isabel and Quindío and covers land in the departments of Caldas, Quindío, Risaralda and Tolima, in the center of the country.

At the time, the Court ordered the president DukeNatural Parks and the departments of Caldas, Quindío, Risaralda and Tolima to prepare a joint plan to “recover, maintain and conserve the Nevados National Park”.

In addition to housing ecosystems of moors and high Andean forests, which are characterized by the presence of three snow-capped volcanoes that make it visible throughout the Eje Cafetero ecoregion.

Likewise, it has a water potential represented as it has more than 100 micro-basins that supply aqueducts, and lakes, lagoons, dams and groundwater.

Source: Elcomercio

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