Last week, a group of indigenous Kofan expressed concern about a new base Colombia's army is building at a site called "Finca Maravales" in the Guamués valley in Putumayo, reports the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. The group had traveled to Bogota to take part in a press conference marking the creation of a 10,000-hectare bio-reserve [...]
The Transnational Institute (TNI) has just released a report which examines the impact of coca cultivation, petroleum activity and armed conflict on Cofan, a people traditionally living in the tropical forest between Ecuador and Colombia. Today their territory, culture and very survival are being threatened by the dynamics associated with the drugs trade, the armed [...]