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News Colombia » Cauca: Why Are Social Leaders Dying in Colombia’s Cauca?

News channel or source: https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis-murders-social-leaders-cauca-colombia/

Published on: Wednesday 16 October 2019

The murders of social leaders in Colombia have only accelerated in 2019 In early 2018, Colombia’s Ombudsman’s Office sounded the alarm regarding an unprecedented increase in the murders of social ...

News Colombia » Cauca: Colombia: Cauca Violence due to FARC Under Pressure

News channel or source: https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/colombia-cauca-violence-due-to-farc-under-pressure/

Published on: Tuesday 24 May 2011

The Colombian province of Cauca is one of the most strategic in the country and the site of the most sustained combat between Marxist guerrillas and the army. The authorities have said the FARC’s ...

News Colombia » Cauca: Young Indigenous leaders in Colombia's violent Cauca gather to resist violence and elect new voices

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/young-indigenous-leaders-in-colombias-violent-cauca-gather-to-resist-violence-and-elect-new-voices/ar-AA1IEz1a

Published on: Tuesday 15 July 2025

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 authority from the Nasa ...

News Colombia » Cauca: Colombia reels from explosive attack as death toll climbs to 20

News channel or source: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/colombia/article315541825.html

Published on: Sunday 26 April 2026

The death toll from an explosive attack in Colombia on Saturday has risen to 20, according to authorities, with over 36 more injured. The government blames a dissident faction of the demobilized FARC ...

News Colombia » Cauca: In Colombia, “a Government of the Callused Hands”

News channel or source: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/colombia-petro-francia-marquez/

Published on: Thursday 23 June 2022

Colombian left-wing presidential candidate Gustavo Petro’s running mate Francia Marquez shows her ballot as she votes during the presidential runoff election in Suarez, Cauca department, Colombia, on ...

News Colombia » Cauca: Colombia’s cane industry efficient but potentially damaging

News channel or source: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/03/colombias-cane-industry-efficient-but-potentially-damaging/

Published on: Sunday 26 March 2017

About 80 percent of all sugar cane in Colombia is concentrated in the Pacific coastal state of Valle del Cauca, and cane represents 50 percent of all local agricultural production. The Afro-Colombian ...

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

News channel or source: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-07-15/young-indigenous-leaders-in-colombias-violent-cauca-gather-to-resist-violence-and-elect-new-voices