InSight Crime

Social Leaders in Cauca, Colombia Face Down Threats From Crime Groups

Social leaders in Cauca told InSight Crime that they would stay to defend their territories, despite threats from criminal groups. The number of leaders murdered in Cauca, Colombia shows that their ...
Yahoo

Violent guerrillas are taking Colombia's children. Unarmed Indigenous groups are confronting them

CALDONO, Colombia (AP) — When Patricia Elago Zetty's 13-year-old son went missing in Colombia's conflict-ridden southwest, she didn't hesitate. Elago and five fellow members of the Indigenous Guard ...
The Purdue Exponent

Elections under fire: Colombia endures deadliest campaign in decades

A presidential candidate has been assassinated, rebels have pipe‑bombed a major city and a third of the country is considered ...
Mongabay

The underreported killing of Colombia’s Indigenous land guardian, ‘The Wolf’ (Photos)

Carlos Andrés Ascué Tumbo, a 30-year-old Indigenous land guardian and educator, was the 115th social leader killed in Colombia this year. He served as a member of the Kiwe Thegnas (or Indigenous Guard ...
Los Angeles Times

Young Indigenous leaders in Colombia’s violent Cauca gather to resist violence and elect new voices

LAS DELICIAS, Colombia — Adriana Pazu wiped away tears as she remembered a colleague who was shot dead earlier this year by an armed dissident group for defending their land. Pazu, an Indigenous ...
InSight Crime

High-Level Attack Punctuates Security Crisis in Southwestern Colombia

The attempted assassination of family members of Colombia’s vice president underscores the deteriorating situation in the southwest of the country and puts at further risk an already faltering peace ...
Reuters

Colombia says 29 security force members kidnapped in Cauca province

BOGOTA, March 7 (Reuters) - Twenty-nine members of Colombia's security forces have been kidnapped from two locations in Cauca province after attacks by a FARC dissident faction, the defense ministry ...