La situación de los campesinos erradicadores adscritos al Programa Gubernamental de Erradicación Manual Forzosa de CUltivos Ilícitos, víctimas de minas antipersonales en la Operación "Colombia Verde" en el Parque Nacional de La Macarena

Abstract

This article describes the unsafe working situation and lack of knowledge of basic rights to health and social security of farmers who , linked in 2006 to the Mobile Eradication Groups as part of the Colombian Governmental Programme of Forced Manual Eradication of Illicit Crops, managed by the former Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation - Social Action, who were recruited to participate in Operation "Colombia Verde" in the Macarena National Park in the Meta department, being victims of antipersonnel mines by the lack of security guarantees the location and subsequent deactivation of such devices by the security forces.