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Colombia Tries to
Palliate Crisis
Bogota - Colombia has
adopted a package of
measures to alleviate
the serious crisis
caused by the bankruptcy
of illegal money-sensor
companies in Putumayo,
Nariño, Cauca and Huila
departments, this South
American country's
government announced.
The measures were agreed
Tuesday night after a
long meeting among
President Alvaro Uribe,
authorities and
representatives of
communities in those
poor southern Colombian
states.
The measures include
bank credits, with
special regulations to
facilitate acces to
low-cost financial
services to the poorest
sectors of the
population, and
provision of more
resources to programs to
support those displaced.
Credits will be also
granted to university
students and those of
technical specialities,
to facilitate access and
continuity of studies,
and the Agriculture
Ministry will increase
credit granting and
technical advisory to
producers.
These measures seek to
counteract the crisis
caused in those
territories by the
bankruptcy of closure of
pyramids, something that
has led thousands of
families into ruin.
However, in statements
after the meeting, Uribe
warned that the
government can not
assume the
responsibility of
returning the money the
savers lost, using the
public budget.
He reiterated that
promoters or
administrators of
pyramids that were
willing to give back the
money defrauded from
investors would have
guarantees.
The crisis caused by the
pyramid scandal has
affected especially in
Putumayo department,
which is practically
stopped by permanent
protests in most of its
towns and cities.
In Mocca, the capital of
that region, the closure
of businesses and
schools and strikes in
the transportation
sector are almost total,
while several
populations have
reported lack of basic
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