Colombia: A Community’s Struggle to Protect Itself from Land Mines in the Colombian Amazon

Jun 25, 2020 | Camila Osario, New Yorker
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The Siona indigenous territories are located in the state of Putumayo, which has, since the nineteen-sixties, been the crossroads of a war between the Colombian Army, right-wing paramilitary groups, and a left-wing guerrilla organization known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which planted thousands of mines in many Colombian states, including Putumayo. After guerrilla leaders signed a peace accord in 2016, many of their rank-and-file members demobilized, and the C.C.B.L. was able to start working in areas that were previously too dangerous for them to reach.