Assassins kill indigenous leader Luz Miriam Vargas Castaño at the Avirama reserve in Paez, Cauca. She is the third social leader killed in a 48-hour period in Colombia. Gunmen kidnapped and killed the indigenous governor of Agua Clara, Bajo Baudó, Chocó, and kill social leader Yoanny Yeffer Vanegas Cardona in San José del Guaviare, Guaviare.
Timeline for entries tagged “Cauca”
A chronology of events related to peace, security, and human rights in Colombia.
June 9, 2020
Local leaders in Monterredondo, Miranda, Cauca, advise FARC ex-combatants at the local reincorporation site that they should displace because of threats received from an unidentified armed group. On June 10, threats force the displacement of 20 ex-combatants from El Diamante, La Uribe, Meta.
May 23, 2020
In an event that recalls the George Floyd killing for many Colombians, a 21-year-old Afro-descendant man, Anderson Arboleda, dies from blows to the head inflicted by police in Puerto Tejada, Cauca.
May 6, 2020
Interior Minister Alicia Arango voices consternation at the security situation in Cauca department. “We don’t know what we’re doing wrong, why this isn’t working,” she says, proposing further military deployments and a system of rewards for informants.
April 29, 2020
Twenty fighters from the ELN’s José María Becerra Front turn themselves in to the Army following combat in El Tambo, Cauca. Seven more demobilize on May 2.
April 29, 2020
Gunmen massacre social leader Álvaro Narváez and three members of his family at their home in rural Mercaderes, Cauca.
April 15, 2020
Eight members of the “Carlos Patiño Front” FARC dissident group are reported dead in Argelia, Cauca, following combat with the Army.