:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/XX34KXON7BBBJOK6VG33B7HRI4.png "President Gustavo Petro produces new controversy over proposal to ‘democratize’ power generation")
A question sent by the president Gustavo Petro of the municipality of they are hotCauca, where he went to discover the experience of the connectivity community called Yxah wejxia (wind network), which serves more than 850 people, in the NASA reserve: “Why not democratize the production of electricity?”.
Gustavo Petro proposed that community internet networks be extended to reservations and communities across the country
The announcement was made during his visit to the Pueblo Nuevo Indigenous Reserve in Caldono, Cauca Department, where he assured that “an informed people is a conscious people, a communicated people is a powerful people”.
The president also said that in Colombia there is an “oligopoly of six production companies that have the population by the neck” and spoke of the importance of creating communities for energy projects, the Internet, community media, roads tertiary, among others.
“The government can contract the constitution of these energy communities and basically allow them to exist, because we have an oligopoly of six large energy producers that have practically the majority of the Colombian population by the neck, thanks to the collection of tariffs . Why not democratize the production of electricity then?”, declared the head of state.
He also added that he wants these connectivity communities to spread across the country and for this reason he said that “all regulations that prevent this must be removed. We must eliminate the misery with which these networks of optical fiber so that with public money they can become strong fiber optic networks”.
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In the same way, he mentioned the information produced by the community and that it would be better to have several channels of communication, “not just two channels that tell us what is true or what is a lie. So that if they want to manipulate us, whether it’s the state, whether it’s economic power, Colombian society has enough autonomy to say that it doesn’t allow itself to be manipulated, that it can get up, if she wants to; who is the real owner of the country”.
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Regarding the internet run by community action committees, the national president defended himself against those who compared him to Hugo Chávez. “Making it in a speech, it sparked some anger, as always, from powerful people saying what I was talking about was crazy, it couldn’t be done, or it was chavismo issues. , like someone who talks about satan,” he said. said.
And then he added: “They told me that I was crazy and that it was chavistaPacho Santos is fiber optic technology, it is information and it is communication, so here is a demonstration of what can be done in any neighborhood of Ciudad Bolívar, Bucaramanga, on the Caribbean coast, in the neighborhoods of the northern municipalities of Medellín, of the same center”.
“Here, we are showing the country that it is simply taking up an old idea that we called satellite dishes, which were setting up fiber optic networks, perhaps without knowing the importance it would have in the future. (…) This is what we call today connectivity, what passes on this fiber is pure information and communication. There, you can call, watch television, open a window and know the world, the planet, find out what is happening in each circumstance,” he also warned.
From his Twitter account, the President wrote details of his visit to the Municipality of Cauca: “I am connected from a connectivity community called Yxah wejxia in the Nasa reserve of Pueblo Nuevo in Caldono, Cauca. It serves 859 people. There are more than 3,000 in Colombia, here I show that it is possible”.
And in another trill he added: “This community of connectivity thus defends its own language, produces local television, has its own technicians, enables telephone communications. It connects to the optical fiber that reaches Caldono”.