President Ivan Duque’s plan to send 2,500 soldiers to Cauca in southwest Colombia may be a military offensive against indigenous authorities rather than narco-guerrillas. The announcement triggered a red alert…
Colombia’s government has come under fire from all sides over the mass killing of indigenous leaders. The United Nations, Congress, regional authorities and indigenous authorities have criticized the administration of…
Two days after alleged FARC dissidents massacred an indigenous governor and four guards, authorities in Corinto, a town in southwest Colombia, reported a second massacre. The indigenous community of the…
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque on Wednesday ordered the military to send 2,500 soldiers to southwest Colombia where alleged FARC dissidents massacred an indigenous governor and four indigenous guards. Following a…
President Ivan Duque traveled to southwest Colombia on Wednesday to attend what indigenous authorities call a genocide. Following the latest massacre in which an indigenous governor and four guards were…
An indigenous governor and four indigenous guards were killed in a massacre in southwest Colombia on Tuesday, according to local authorities. Five more people were injured. According to local indigenous…
Colombia defense minister on Tuesday claimed that a human rights defender who was allegedly murdered by soldiers “died in a military operation.” The controversy over the death of Flower Jair…
Land rights and black minority activist Francia Marquez from southwest Colombia is one of the world’s most influential and inspiring women, according to the BBC. Marquez, who won a Goldman…
The United Nations on Monday condemned the assassination of the sixth indigenous guard in just weeks in the troubled southwest of Colombia. Toribio Canas, 53, was gunned down at his…