Armed men assassinated a former indigenous governor in southwest Colombia on Monday while other leaders were meeting with government representatives to demand a meeting with President Ivan Duque. According to…
Indigenous peoples from southwest Colombia arrived in the city of Cali on Monday, the day Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, to demand talks with President Ivan Duque. The…
Indigenous people from southwest Colombia on Wednesday toppled a statue of a conquistador who was sentenced to death 474 years ago for, among other things, butchering their ancestors. The statue…
Journalists are trying to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from driving some of Colombia’s most isolated indigenous communities in the Amazon region into extinction. Visiting the indigenous communities in La Chorrera…
Less than a week after Colombia’s Congress approved a controversial bill allowing life imprisonment for child rapists, seven soldiers plead guilty to gang-raping a 13-year-old indigenous girl. The soldiers plead…
Government failures to provide aid ahead of the coronavirus pandemic is “exacerbating hunger and the risk of extermination” of Colombia’s ethnic minorities, a court agreed. According to the Cundinamarca Superior…
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Colombia’s indigenous organization ONIC said Friday that two babies and a woman died of suspected coronavirus infections as the native Colombians kicked off their own monitoring system. The deaths followed…
While Colombia’s urban population is struggling, the national indigenous organizations consider the coronavirus pandemic a wake-up call from Mother Earth to “return to the origin.” According to national indigenous organization ONIC,…