The Sikuani Indigenous people resist in the midst of a devastated landscape. In the savannas of Meta, where moriche palm groves, rivers, and life once flourished, mechanized soy and corn crops and industrial pig farms now dominate. What was once ancestral territory has become a scene of dispossession, contamination, and displacement. Behind the expansion of companies such as Aliar-Fazenda and the Mennonite colonies lies a history of racism, impunity, and violence that threatens the physical and cultural extermination of the oldest peoples of the Colombian Orinoquía.
Read the full investigation:
- The pork mega farms eating away at life in Meta
- Barrulia: from living on 58,000 hectares to inhabiting a sports centre
- Carranza’s Dead Hand Behind Aliar-Fazenda and the Mennonites in Meta
* This story is part of an investigation by El Turbión, carried out with the support of Global Exchange and Brighter Green’s Animals and Biodiversity Reporting Fund, and is part of a series that documents how violence, land concentration, and ecocide threaten the physical and cultural survival of the Sikuani people.
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