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Indigenous people leave the Colombian city of Cali and return to nearby Cauca department after joining the protests against the government of Colombian President Ivan Duque, on May 12, 2021. | Paola MAFLA / AFP
Poverty, long-simmering racial tension, drug-trafficking and a recent outbreak of violent anti-government protest: the Colombian city of Cali has come to encapsulate all the ills of a country recently emerged from half a century of conflict but tumbling back into crisis.
With 2.5 million inhabitants, just over half of them black, the tropical melting pot near the Latin American nation s Pacific coast is weighed down by crushing poverty and unemployment.