land

April 28, 2023
Alexander Aviña

In his new book, historian Javier Puente chronicles how rural communities in the Andean highlands played a key role in the making of state power in twentieth-century Peru.

April 11, 2023
Virginie Laurent, Bret Gustafson with Carmen Gembuel Quiguanas, Eduin Capaz Lectamo, & Ancizar Majin Tintinago

For leaders of Cauca’s Indigenous movement, the election of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez is a major victory. But mobilization must continue.

August 5, 2019
Alex Diamond

The displacement in El Orejón demonstrates how megaprojects, coca substitution, and the peace process work together to serve elite interests at the expense of campesino ways of life.

December 23, 2015
Nancy Romer

Quinoa production has a long history in the Andes. In the last decade, demand for the crop has skyrocketed, transforming the economy and ecology of the region.

September 15, 2015
Lisa Taylor

The "Liberation of Mother Earth" movement of the Nasa indigenous people in Cauca retakes ancestral land and defies corporate interests

March 24, 2014
The community of El Tamarindo was formed by internally displaced families on empty, untitled land in Colombia. With the expansion of the Barranquilla Free Trade Zone, the community is being forcefully displaced again.
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