Colombia: ‘Stigmatized, Segregated, Forgotten’: Colombia’s Poor Being Evicted Despite Lockdowns

Jun 2, 2020 | Joe Parkin Daniels and Nadège Mazars, Guardian
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Hundreds of Bogotá’s poorest residents are caught between two brutal forces: a nationwide quarantine that makes working impossible and authorities forcing people from homes they say were unlawfully built. Ciudad Bolívar, a sprawling hilltop shantytown on the southern flank of Bogotá, has been Don Pacho’s home for 23 years. Many of the neighbourhood’s million residents have also been displaced by Colombia’s civil war, which killed over 260,000 and forced 7 million from their homes over five decades of bitter fighting. Others have fled economic collapse in neighbouring Venezuela.