Colombia: Coronavirus Spread Threatens Colombia's Amazonian Indigenous Communities

May 29, 2020 | Jorge Valencia, The World
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Along the Amazon River, people have long moved freely among the small towns that sit where the borders of Brazil, Colombia and Peru converge — walking and driving between countries, or rafting from one shore to another.  Earlier this month, the Colombian government ordered the free flow to stop. President Iván Duque announced in mid-May he will send uniformed soldiers to guard the border between the two countries to prevent the coronavirus from spreading from neighboring Brazil, which quickly emerged as a global epicenter of the pandemic.