Native Colombians from the southwest reached a compromise with the government; President Ivan Duque promised to meet with the protesters, and they agreed to unblock a major highway. The Regional…
Colombia’s interior minister reopened negotiations with indigenous representatives in the Cauca province after native protesters in the neighboring Valle del Cauca suspended talks. Minister Nancy Patricia Gutierrez suspended talks with…
Indigenous people from southwest Colombia vowed to remove roadblocks after foreign organizations agreed to monitor deescalation efforts in the war-torn region. Indigenous peoples from across Colombia called a national process…
Indigenous communities in southwest Colombia are celebrating the formal recognition of the country’s first indigenous university.
Colombia’s government “lacks the will” to protect its indigenous people, an indigenous leader said on Thursday.
Some 5,000 indigenous people from the southern Colombian Cauca department started a protest march on Tuesday to demand autonomous education programs. Cali newspaper El Pais reported that members of the…
A group of armed men attacked indigenous leader and CRIC member Daniel Piñacue Achicue outside of the south Colombian city of Popayan, local media reported on Thursday. Piñacue, governor of…