Colombia, Indigenous block routes into Arauca

On 6 February hundreds of indigenous blocked the routes into the petrol-producing department of Arauca in north-east Colombia on the border with Venezuela. They were protesting the detention by the military of three of their leaders who are accused of links with the ELN.
The protesters also called for the establishment of a permanent verification and monitoring commission to investigate the situation of indigenous groups in the Arauca region, with particular respect to the extraction of petroleum, and the use of indigenous peoples in the middle of the conflict. Read Article