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Security & Strategic Review - July 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Indigenous in Cauca ‘expel’ both warring parties
The news made headlines across the world: an indigenous community in Colombian, fed up with being caught in the middle of the fighting between government forces and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas, had decided to expel both from their territory, invoking the autonomy grated them in the constitution. This was almost accurate, but it failed to reflect important political and social nuances, and above all a big problem Colombia shares with other Latin American countries: the boundary between the traditional rights of indigenous communities and the laws of the nation in which they live. In Colombia, this is happening against the backdrop of a guerrilla organisation that is refusing to buckle under pressure.
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