Colombia: Indigenous Resistance And The Law

Colombia: Indigenous Resistance And The Law Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas, 2011   The indigenous peoples of Colombia have used various forms of resistance to attempt to change their identities and appropriate their lands. Over time the emphasis has shifted from law and legal titles to marches and land occupations to armed resistance and back again to the law. The legal liberalism that emerged with the 1991 Constitution in Colombia led to the demobilization of the indigenous movement of the...

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