Etiqueta: environmental destruction

By: Camila Ramírez

In the Colombian Orinoquía region, 300 kilometres from Bogotá, the Sikuani indigenous community of Barrulia, in Puerto Gaitán, Meta, has been demanding recognition of its ancestral territory for decades, but the state has denied protection measures and violated their rights. Now they face the dispossession and deforestation of their lands by Mennonite foreign religious groups[MM1] , a threat that puts the Sikuani people at high risk of physical and cultural extermination.