Colombia News » Putumayo News Colombia » Putumayo » Places: Resurgence of Coca in Putumayo Reflects Colombia’s Failed Strategy
Putumayo department has again emerged as a main coca production center in southern Colombia The south of Putumayo has re-emerged as Colombia’s second-largest coca producing center, following a period ...
News Colombia » Putumayo » Places: Report highlights humanitarian concerns in Colombia's Putumayo region
BOGOTA, Colombia, July 14 (UNHCR) - Forced displacement remains a major problem in southern Colombia's volatile Putumayo department, according to a report by six local and international ...
News Colombia » Putumayo » Places: Colombia: Armed Groups Strangle Southern Communities
(Washington, DC) – Armed groups in Colombia’s southern state of Putumayo, have tightened their control over citizens’ daily lives and committed grave abuses against civilians, particularly in ...
News Colombia » Putumayo » Places: An Indigenous take on Colombia’s new gov’t: Interview with a Putumayo Indigenous leader
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mongabay interviewed Marino Peña, a prominent Indigenous leader from Colombia’s Putumayo region, to hear his take on the incoming government’s ...
News Colombia » Putumayo » Places: Colombia’s coca substitution transformed lives, but now farmers fear return of violence
Colombian Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez, left, removes a coca plant during his visit to the coca-growing region to speak with farmers about the substitution of illicit crops, in Villagarzon ...
News Colombia » Putumayo » Places: The Perpetual Cocaine War of Colombia’s Putumayo
A new outbreak of violence between dissident factions of the FARC in Putumayo. Once a guerrilla stronghold, the southern Colombia coca-growing department of Putumayo is experiencing a new outbreak of ...
News Colombia » Putumayo » Places: Colombia: Putumayo, 5 years later
Plan Colombia and Beyond takes a look at the Putomayo region of Colombia five years after the implementation of Plan Colombia and concludes, “the lesson of Putumayo should be that temporary surges in ...