Far-right group Aguilas Negras gave awarded environmentalist Francia Marquez and other black minority leaders until Monday to leave southwest Colombia or be killed. They stayed. In a press conference in…
Colombia’s prosecution is allegedly blaming two innocent men for an attempt to massacre black minority leaders in the southwest of the country in May. The family of the two brothers…
Prosecution officials arrested two men for their alleged participation in an attempted massacre of Afrocolombian leaders in southwest Colombia last month. According to the prosecution, the two suspects took part…
Little more than a year after being awarded the world’s most prestigious environmental award and a day after she almost was assassinated, Francia Marquez urged the government to embrace the…
Armed men attacked Afrocolombian leaders who were preparing a pending meeting with the national government, they said Saturday. Two bodyguards were injured. According to black rights organization PCN, armed men…
Francia Marquez, an activist from southwest Colombia, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman prize for extraordinary environmental activists. Marquez, a community leader from the war-torn Cauca department, led a 10-day,…