‘We saw our family members cut into pieces’: how Colombia’s Wiwa people have been forced from their mountain – again
The Guardian - 2024-05-13T11:00:23.000Z

Indigenous communities have once more been pushed from their land by armed groups. Will it ever be safe to return to the Sierra Nevada?Photographs by Antonio CascioLuis Angel Mejía heard the first gunshots at 11pm. The deafening noise shook El Limón and surrounding areas in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, northern Colombia, until 2am.“They were launching missiles that shook the earth. We heard gunshots, grenades and rockets non-stop,” Mejía says. “We thought: ‘As soon as the [firing] stops,... Read this story