The war goes on

August 17, 2018 10:21 AM

One tribe caught up in Colombia’s armed conflict

“We used to be many here, but now we are few,” he says. “There has been conflict in our ancestral territory for a long time now. It has impacted the community a lot. It has changed the way the younger generation sees things.”

posted by poffin boffin (1 comment total)

That article did not pull any punches with outside (US) intervention screwed the Siona over worse than a raging civil war had. Definitely not an easy read.

I found Colombia to be an engaging country with a thriving and resistant indigenous population--but I was on the other side of the country and I'm sorry to read that it's so different in Putumayo.
posted by librarylis at 7:25 PM on August 23, 2018