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How Colombia does nothing while its social leaders are being exterminated
by Adriaan Alsema July 4, 2018
Colombia’s authorities seem unable or hardly interested to curb the wholesale slaughter of the country’s social leaders that has skyrocketed since a peace process came into force.
The most recent victims fell on Tuesday while most in the country were watching their national team’s soccer match against England at the World Cup in Russia.
Two men on a motorbike shot and killed Luis Barrios, an activist of the Democratic Center party in Palmar de Varela, a municipality in the Caribbean Atlantico province.
In Quibdo, the capital of Choco, local community leader Santa Felicinda Santamaria was assassinated, according to her neighbors.
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Human rights defenders were always the target of far-right death squads defending the interests of land and business owners, and drug traffickers.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/how-colombia-does-nothing-while-its-social-leaders-are-exterminated/