Protest against Plan Colombia, 2001, Bogota. Getty Images / Carlos Villalon. All rights reserved.
“This is a policy of the government: to clear us off the territory that is ours, as campesinos and indigenous peoples, because there are many indigenous communities who have their lands taken away by war, by the terror that they instill in the communities to remove us from our territory so that they can come and extract natural resources” – Fernando Roa, farmer and vice president of Santo Domingo’s communal action council.
