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The fiery social protest in Colombia has its hotspot in Cali, in the southwestern part of the country. Young people fed up with exclusion and the lack of opportunities are the protagonists, they feel that the time has come to change their history. ....
Slaves at a sugar plantation near Cali. (Image: La Bolsa estate) Some 170 years after the abolishment of slavery, Cali has the second-largest black community of Latin America’s cities. This is a region of former slave plantations. But also of captaincies that controlled the indigenous people of the Cauca region were controlled. The church and the landowners were involved. Social scientist Fernando Urrea This city’s Afrocolombian community has grown bigger since the 1990’s because of the influx of black communities who were displaced from the Pacific coast by armed conflict. This influx of victims of displacement made poor neighborhoods even more predominantly black and rich neighborhoods even more exclusively white than they traditionally were. ....