Members of the Awa indigenous people on Sunday were allegedly tortured and killed in Colombia’s southwestern Nariño department. Reports vary as to how many people were killed, ranging from four to five. Newspaper El...
After years in rural Colombia reporting on the armed conflict, journalist turned filmmaker Nicole Karsin devoted herself to documenting the struggle of indigenous women caught in the middle of the ongoing battle between FARC...
The Colombian government gave $565,000 to an Awa indigenous community to encourage the cultivation of cocoa, said local media Monday. The funds were awarded to the central Colombian town of Ricaurte and its surrounding Awa...
Three men convicted of the 2009 murder of 12 people from Colombia’s Awa indigenous group were sentenced Tuesday to 52 years in jail, Efe reports. Jose Miguel Castro, Daniel Cuasuluzan Rodriguez and Carlos Enrique Malpu...
Four people, reportedly from the indigenous Awa group, were massacred Thursday night in Colombia’s south-western Nariño department, El Espectador reported Friday. The motive of the murder is not yet known. The victims are...
