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The people of Buenaventura in the Colombian pacific have had enough. For over two weeks, communities and social movements in Colombia's most important port city have been engaged in an indefinite civil strike over the government’s historic neglect of the city's majority Afro-descendent population.
On Tuesday 16 May, in a momentous popular uprising, some thirty community roadblocks sprung up around the city, blocking key routes for trade and commerce. Rural indigenous and Afro-descendent communities also blocked the main highway out of Buenaventura, Colombia's most important trade route.
