Colombia: The Fight over Land: Colombia’s Perpetual Conflict

May 17, 2022 | La Prensa Latina
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Arquia, a Tule indigenous “resguardo” on Colombia’s border with Panama, is one of the few communities to have had land stripped away amid the armed conflict and then later gained it back. Territorial dispossession and the lengthy and frequently fruitless efforts to rectify past wrongs are an all-too-familiar reality in an Andean nation where the battle over land is a life-or-death struggle.