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Violence in Colombia’s Cauca region condemned after indigenous leader’s murder

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The murder of an indigenous governor of the Colombian department of Cauca has once again set off alarm bells about violence in that region, where more than a third of the 836 victims of socio-political violence in Colombia in 2020 lived, an academic report revealed today.

Sandra Liliana Peña, an indigenous Nasa governor and environmental leader of the La Laguna Siberia reservation, traveled on a motorcycle Tuesday when shooters shot her and the driver in cold blood.

It was "the gangsters," her father, Clímaco Peña, said at the wake of "Lilianita", as . . .

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