Colombia News » Cauca News Colombia » Cauca: Young Indigenous leaders in Colombia’s violent Cauca gather to resist violence and elect new voices
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: Cauca’s Pacific Coast Sees Surge in Violence as Conflict Spreads
A new wave of violence in southwestern Colombia signals a worrying spread of conflict into previously calm territories. On September 10, a powerful explosion hit the Pacific coastal town of Timbiquí, ...
News Colombia » Cauca: Colombia chooses its next president amid renewed violence
Armed groups poison a campaign in which candidates Iván Cepeda, Abelardo de la Espriella, and Paloma Valencia have reported death threats ...
News Colombia » Cauca: Colombia prepares to go to polls in election shadowed by resurgence of political violence
Sunday’s presidential vote is contest between left and right – and between contradictory proposals for dealing with the decades-long armed conflict ...
News Colombia » Cauca: Colombia’s frontlines of the drug war: Cauca
Colombian authorities are combating cocaine production in some of the most remote regions. Cauca is one of the long-neglected areas where the drug trade has fueled political conflict. In spite of ...