Why Colombia’s social leaders are being murdered
The state is absent from large parts of the country
YORDAN EDUARDO GüETIO championed the rights of the Nasa people, an indigenous group in Cauca, in western Colombia, to which he belonged. On February 2nd men in military fatigues stopped him and his father on their motorcycle on the outskirts of Corinto, in northern Cauca. They let Mr Güetio’s father go, but shot the son dead. He was less than 30 years old.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Activists amid anarchy”
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