An explosive conflict between indigenous people and authorities in southwest Colombia will not be resolved until the government returns thousands of hectares of land that they have been owed for decades,…
Colombia’s interior minister invited indigenous representatives from the southwest of Colombia to discuss the indigenous’ land claims that spurred violence injuring seven soldiers and dozens of protesters.
Colombia’s government and indigenous communities reached an agreement Tuesday over development plan in indigenous territories.
Inhabitants of a town in southwest Colombia on Sunday temporarily detained 36 soldiers after they had killed a local at a military checkpoint.
The “Indigenous Guard,” the police of Colombia’s native minorities, regularly hit the headlines when confronting guerrilla groups like the FARC or even the military. But the guards have a wider role throughout indigenous…
Indigenous groups marched through the streets in western Colombia on Tuesday to protest escalating violence in their territories, and to urge the continuation of peace talks between the Colombian government and…
An indigenous group from the violence-ridden southwest of Colombia demanded the Army withdraw from the town, in a statement also condemning an alleged death threat from the FARC’s naming 26 indigenous…
A young indigenous girl has been murdered and her sister gone missing in western Colombia, nine days after a pamphlet circulated declaring war on 26 indigenous community leaders in the region.
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC said the guerrillas “profoundly regret” the killing of two indigenous guards by FARC members last week.