Strategic Litigation - Peace, communities, territory and ecosystems

Judgment SU 545 of 2023, notified on 9 April 2024, protected the fundamental rights of peasant communities linked to the PNIS in the municipalities of Tibú and Sardinata, in the department of Norte de Santander, a population that has suffered socio-economic and humanitarian consequences as a result of delays and non-compliance with the programme's components. The Caño Indio nucleus in Tibú, made up of four villages, is the first pilot substitution plan in the department, with 347 beneficiary families who have been waiting for seven years for the implementation of the productive project and the formalisation of the land, fundamental components to guarantee the transition to legal crops.

In 2020, the Luis Carlos Pérez Lawyers Collective Corporation-CCALCP, in accompaniment of the Catatumbo-Ascamcat Peasant Association and the Coccam Tibú, filed a protection action for the protection of the fundamental rights to life, human dignity, minimum vital, principle of legitimate trust, equality, work, citizen participation, compliance with what was agreed in point 4 of the final agreement for the termination of the conflict and the construction of a stable and lasting peace, personal security, the right to defend human rights, and guarantee compliance with the obligation to comply in good faith with what is established in the Final Agreement, in favor of the peasant population beneficiary of the Comprehensive National Program for Crops for Illicit Use- PNIS and enforceability of compliance in the comprehensive implementation with points 1 and 3.4., respectively related to the Comprehensive Rural Reform regarding the formalization of their properties, and security for leaders and communities. The foregoing, in response to the documentation carried out during the years 2018 and 2019 in the face of the humanitarian and socioeconomic crisis generated with the delays and non-compliance with the productive projects of more than 61 family nuclei of the pilot plan for the Caño Indio village.