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Colombia’s Indigenous Minga descend on Bogotá for May Day Protests

By The City Paper Staff - April 30, 2025

More than 16,000 Indigenous protesters have arrived in Bogotá ahead of May Day marches supporting President Petro’s reform agenda. Their occupation of the National University sparked tensions after confrontations with students and reports of machete-armed individuals. Authorities are coordinating security as mass demonstrations are expected across the capital on Thursday.

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Sacred Music, Sacred Territories: Colombia Es Música Sacra tributes the Putumayo  

By Richard Emblin - January 15, 2025

The Colombia es Música Sacra tour arrived in Puerto Asís,Putumayo, with Camëntsá women from JASHNAN performing ancestral songs in a Catholic church. The event celebrated Indigenous resilience, cultural preservation, and reconciliation along the historic, extractive-ravaged Río Putumayo.

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Petro’s 100 days marked by deaths of 58 social leaders

By Richard Emblin - November 29, 2022

During Petro’s 100 days in office, 58 social leaders have been killed, and almost one-third of the total documented for 2022 by NGO Indepaz.

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Sir Roger Casement’s defense of Colombia’s Putumayo

By Gonzalo Guillen - June 10, 2022

Sir Roger Casement exposed the injustices of the rubber trade in the Amazon before meeting an untimely end in his native Ireland.

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Vaccinations in Colombia surpass coronavirus active cases

By Richard Emblin - February 22, 2021

Colombia saw its lowest daily increase in new coronavirus infections since May 2020 and vaccinations have surpassed total active cases.

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Colombia’s war atrocities emerge with JEP’s revised “false positives”

By Richard Emblin - February 19, 2021

On the same day ex-FARC admitted responsibility for war crimes, JEP revised the numbers of extra-judicial killings by Colombia’s Armed Forces.

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OXY to leave mainland Colombia to develop country’s offshore oil reserves

By The City Paper Staff - October 5, 2020

After 40 years in Colombia, “OXY” announced the sale of all its mainland assets to develop the country’s offshore oil and gas potential.

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A skewed homage to Terence McKenna in the time of pandemia

By Jimmy Weiskopf - May 20, 2020

From time among shamans in Colombias’ Amazon, the enigmatic ethnobotanist Terence McKenna unveiled societal truths and prophetic in our age of coronavirus.

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The Elders and a Huitoto healing

By Richard Emblin - October 29, 2018

The Elders of the Huitoto are commemorating 30-years of the Colombian government’s recognition of their ancestral territory.

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Photo gallery: Tragedy strikes the capital of Putumayo

By Richard Emblin - April 1, 2017

Photos of the landslide that struck the capital of Putumayo in southern Colombia Saturday morning killing more than 150.

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President Santos visits Putumayo disaster and declares state of emergency

By Richard Emblin - April 1, 2017

President Santos has declared a state of emergency after visiting the disaster zone caused by a landslide. The death toll Saturday morning stood at 112 with 400 injured.

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