Sunday, July 22, 2012

What happened in Cauca?


Colombian friends took to Facebook this week following a stand-off between soldiers and people from the indigenous Nasa community in the Department of Cauca with an unusual intensity for a country often numbed to so much violence.

Why such a reaction? I can't begin to explain. The more I learn about Colombia the more clouded and undefinable the layers of conflict in this beautiful country seem to me. Here are some resources that hopefully provide context to the ongoing battle between the military and the FARC, and the immense toll such violence takes on the innocent people caught in the middle.

Latin American Working Group's Colombian Campaign. Noticias 24's coverage with video of President Santos' statement. A write-up from Foreign Policy. Images from the BBC. The fairly in-depth AP story with a focus on political fallout.

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