Tell me with who you administer and I will tell you who loses

By law, the indigenous communities are entitled to the bonuses generated by the minerals extracted from their territories.  Many of them don't know how to spend their money.  Some of them distribute it among their selves in same quantities, other parts give it to the captain (recognized legal authority) and this man flies away and nobody knows about him again.  The local politicians like to impel projects, but they are half-ended, with such a scarce community instruction that they condemn them to failure.

The money sent by the state isn't surrender directly to the communities, but rather the governor's office administers it and executes it.  The populations present the projects, according to their needs, the leaders give the check mark and they carry out them.  However, the indigenous authorities know few about methodologies.  The offices that should serve them difficultly as a guideline hardly work, their officials defer and defer the delivery of such projects to Bogotá.  The contracts between the community authorities and the miners are usually oral and the miner is who determines how much was taken out.

Everything accumulates so the money and the gold get lost in the road.  I only knew about a community that used their money well; they were directed by an evangelical pastor, a very quiet and very serious guy.  Other, on the Atabapo River, knew that they had gold and they didn't still exploit it.  Today, their destination depends on the instruction that they reach and in the capacity that they demonstrate to manage the language of the state.  It is as putting a newspaper of a small municipality to investigate all the puzzles of the proceso 8.000^e19.

For take out a project ahead, the communities of Guainía (and of whole Colombia) they should:  To fight with the state, to push it so that it moves, to hold back the promise managers, to take out the well educated thieves, to solve their problems of internal coordination, to prevent that the system corrupts their leaders and (if they have left time) to be in charge of all the works that allow them to continue alive and to raise their children.  Superman, with all and his powers, would be seen like a baby.  There is nothing left but trusting in  and to hope our faith saves us.

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The process 8.000 was the name of the judiciary process against the then president Ernesto Samper.  It was started by his counterpart in the election, the now president Andrés Pastrana, few days after his counterpart won the election.  This latter presented to the media cassettes with evidence incriminating important members of the Samper's presidential campaign of having receive money from narcotraffic.  The nation split in two bands:  One claiming Samper's resignation and the other supporting him as innocent.  One important bishop said that "an elephant" was in the middle of the campaign and he didn't see it. The president shortened his position in the phrase "here I am and here I stay", and left his judiciary status in the hands of the Supreme Court and the political in the Congress.  The judges absolved him for lack of evidence but the congress, more infiltrated by narcotraffic money than the president, didn't found any political responsibility.  Samper finished his period with governability problems, his name and the elephant became the symbols of the one who says only self-convinient words.