Colombia: Indigenous People In Putumayo Opposed To New Road Across Traditional Lands

Colombia: Indigenous People In Putumayo Opposed To New Road Across Traditional Lands   The indigenous communities Camentsa and Inga and other indigenous groups in Putumayo suffer anguish and worry because of the plan to construct a new segment of a road that crosses a strategic area which produces water in the Colombian Amazon region called Vinchioc, which in Camentsa language means Place of Winds. This is the same area that contains their Sacred Places, where their Spirits make water, the...

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