The Colombian government, farmers, Afro-Colombians, and indigenous groups have created a dialogue table that seeks to improve the living conditions of rural and minority communities.
Social protests spread across northern and southwestern Colombia, and into the city of Medellin on Thursday as locals went on strike over lacking infrastructure, water and electricity shortages, and drought.
Some 25 thousand farmers in southern Colombia have been involved in weeks-long protests demanding the national government end controversial aerial fumigation of coca crops and carry out due diligence in the awarding of oil…
One person was killed and more than 30 were injured in riots in the northern Colombian port city of Barranquilla on Monday. The violence emerged from spontaneous protests over blackouts…
Hundreds of residents of Cucuta on Thursday took part in a shut-down of the northeastern city, in protest of ongoing economic hardship in the city that is suffering from impeded…
A rural leader who has been negotiating with Colombia’s government for increased support for the nation’s farmers said on Friday that there is an assassination plot on his life worth…
How do people get what they want from their governments? Some simply lobby for what they want. These people may include those with high positions of power, such as politicians,…
Amnesty International (AI) claimed on Tuesday that indigenous leaders involved in ongoing protests throughout Colombia have received death threats with the intent of “social cleansing” from paramilitary groups.
Operations at Colombia’s Cerro Matoso nickel mine were temporarily suspended after a group of 6,000 indigenous protesters blocked the facility’s entrances late Wednesday.