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By Laia Mataix Gómez El Tarra, Colombia, Jan 2 (EFE).- Bryan always wanted to study medicine to “help those in need,” but he was born in the marginalized and troubled Colombian region of Catatumbo, where higher education is scarce and lack of opportunity condemns young people to abandon their studies and work “at whatever comes …
El Tarra, Colombia, Dec 15 (EFE).- Coca growers from Colombia’s northeastern Catatumbo region arrived here Thursday for a meeting with the government aimed at hashing out a strategy for putting them on a path to legality while also safeguarding them from economic hardship and hunger. Five large organizations of these farmers from mountainous and jungle-covered …
By Geraldine Garcia Tibu, Colombia, May 16 (EFE).- The Bari people, one of the indigenous groups of Colombia’s lowland Catatumbo region, gathered over the weekend in this northeastern city to demand their right to live in harmony with nature and preserve their ancestral lands, or “Ishtana.” Hundreds of indigenous men, women and children heeded the …