Colombia: From Palenque to the Buenaventura Strike: The Long-Standing Battle of Afro-Colombians

Jul 5, 2017 | Nazaret Castro, Equal Times
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Colombia’s Afro-descendant population, largely concentrated in the Pacific and Caribbean regions, has perhaps been the worst victim of the displacements and the massacres perpetrated by the paramilitaries, within the framework of a civil conflict that official discourse reduces to a fight between the Army and the guerrilla, but that is, in fact, much wider in scope.