Cali to celebrate Inca festival
Cali’s indigenous population this month will lead the city in the celebration of the Inti-Raymi festival, an Incan celebration of the sun god Inti and the beginning of a new…
Cali’s indigenous population this month will lead the city in the celebration of the Inti-Raymi festival, an Incan celebration of the sun god Inti and the beginning of a new…
Colombia’s northernmost department of La Guajira is undertaking a new tourism venture – offering organized tours to the virgin beaches and indigenous villages of El Pajaro. sponsor:Colombia Travel Agent –…
The situation of Colombia’s indigenous communities continues to worsen due to the forced recruitment of indigenous children by guerilla groups the FARC and ELN, reports investigative website Verdad Abierta on…
A teacher from the western Colombian department of Nariño discovered rock carvings thought to be more than 400 years old, reported El Tiempo on Monday. Professor Luis Alberto Ortega came…
Colombia will train indigenous Wayuu to assist police in the northern department of La Guajira to deal with insecurity in the region, which borders Venezuela. “Policemen in the department of…
A U.S.-based NGO alleges that they and 80 other Colombian NGOs received death threats from Colombian paramilitary group the “Aguilas Negras.” The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), whose aim…
Indigenous communities in the south western department of Cauca implored all armed fighters on Tuesday to leave their territory, following the intensification of fighting between left-wing FARC guerillas and the…
Colombia’s Wayuu communities will celebrate the bicentenary of Colombia’s independence from an indigenous perspective, at their annual cultural festival to be held in Uribia, in the northern department of la…
Indigenous leaders in Colombia’s south-western Valle del Cauca department allege that demobilized paramilitary group the AUC sent them threatening leaflets, declaring them to be “enemies” and military targets, reports to El Espectador. Thirty-six leaders…