Colombia News » Cauca News Colombia » Cauca » Life: Colombia's Indigenous Guard up in arms over new president's agenda
In the mountains of southwestern Colombia, hundreds of Indigenous guards who protect their lands from crime are debating how to negotiate a standoff with right-wing President Abelardo de la Espriella.
News Colombia » Cauca » Life: 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 » Life: Restoring State Presence In Cauca: Colombia’s Long-Term Security Challenge – Analysis
Colombia’s department of Cauca remains one of the country’s most challenging security environments, where guerrilla factions born from the remnants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) ...
News Colombia » Cauca » Life: Young Indigenous leaders in Colombia’s violent Cauca gather to resist violence and elect new voices
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 » Life: Colombia: 7 killed, over 20 injured in deadly bus bombing in Cauca
At least seven people were killed, and more than 20 people sustained serious injuries after a bomb exploded on a bus in Colombia's Cauca, in what the governor described as a deadly attack targeting ...
News Colombia » Cauca » Life: ‘They Cannot Keep Us Silent’
Maria Pito has dedicated her life to protecting “Uusdy´Ju Yajcha Umiñisa” — a Nasa Yuwe term that roughly translates to “the web of life.” A 52-year-old leader of the Nasa ethnic group from the town ...
News Colombia » Cauca » Life: 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 » Life: Explosion in southwest Colombia kills at least 14, state governor says
At least 14 people have been killed in a highway bombing in southwestern Colombia, according to regional authorities. Octavio Guzmán, the governor of the Cauca region, said the explosive device was ...