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How a historic 'magical bean' is helping Indigenous groups in Colombia

In the La Guajira region of Colombia, a multiyear drought and climate change-fueled natural disasters have disrupted ...
Daily Reporter

Indigenous resistance stalls Colombia’s potential renewable energy boom in La Guajira

CABO DE LA VELA, Colombia (AP) — Giant wind turbines tower over a cemetery sacred to Zoyla Velasquez and her Indigenous Wayuu community, native to the La Guajira region in northern Colombia. This arid ...
Yahoo

Colombia takes regional lead in Indigenous self-government, raising hopes for Amazon protection

FILE - People maneuver by boat through the low water levels of a tributary that connects with the Amazon River, in Isla de la Fantasia, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP ...
FOX31 Denver

Renewable energy ambitions in northern Colombia collide with Indigenous worries

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CABO DE LA VELA, Colombia (AP) — Giant wind ...
Newsday

In Colombia, Indigenous youth seek to protect land. They have to escape violence to do it

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 ...
UNHCR

UNHCR urges armed groups to leave Colombia's indigenous people alone

BOGOTA, Colombia, August 9 (UNHCR) - Until 1988 the outside world knew nothing of the existence of the Nukak, a small tribe of nomadic hunter-gatherers who have lived in the vast rainforests of ...
Los Angeles Times

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

CALDONO, Colombia — 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 trekked ...
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Inside the Indigenous ‘Land Back’ Movement in Colombia

Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, promised to usher in peace and restore lands to the people most affected by conflict, including Indigenous ...
UNHCR

Colombia: Indigenous groups badly affected by conflict

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 9 December 2005 The armed conflict in ...
Yahoo

Renewable energy ambitions in northern Colombia collide with Indigenous worries

CABO DE LA VELA, Colombia (AP) — Giant wind turbines tower over a cemetery sacred to Zoyla Velasquez and her Indigenous Wayuu community, native to the La Guajira region in northern Colombia. This arid ...
Newsday

Colombia takes regional lead in Indigenous self-government, raising hopes for Amazon protection

Colombia this week took a leading position in Latin America for Indigenous rights and forest protection by formalizing Indigenous local governments across swaths of the Amazon, raising hopes that ...