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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 ...
News Colombia » Cauca » Culture: Violence Rages On in Colombia’s Cauca Department
A wave of violence has struck Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department, in the form of targeted killings and armed groups battling for control of coca crops and trafficking routes — a deadly mix. Much ...
News Colombia » Cauca » Culture: In Cauca, Colombian Rebels Make War While Talking Peace
Army operations against dissident forces killed almost 20 dissidents in Cauca. Peace talks in Cauca hang by a thread after the killing of a Colombian soldier by the ex-FARC mafia, underlining the ...
News Colombia » Cauca » Culture: 300 BC gold hoard found by accident then lost to 5,000 looters
In 1992, a tractor accident in Colombia's Cauca Valley exposed the burial tombs of a civilization completely unknown to archaeology, containing an estimated 180 kilograms of pre-Columbian gold ...