By: Andrés Gómez
Land dispossession, violence, and ecocide have marked the history of the Sikuani people since 1940. Armed clashes, forced displacement, and massacres carried out by the army, guerrillas, and settlers paved the way for control of their ancestral territories. But it was under the shadow of emerald miner war lord and paramilitary Víctor Carranza that thousands of hectares were finally seized.
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