Colombia: Plan Colombia Casts Shadow on Indigenous Rights as Peace Nears

Oct 12, 2016 | teleSUR
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Marginalized Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Colombia have been among the most battered by more than five decades of internal armed conflict between the military, paramilitaries and armed left-wing rebel groups. They are also the communities that overwhelmingly voted “Yes” to the groundbreaking peace deal recently defeated at the polls and have much at stake in what comes next on the road to a post-conflict Colombia.