WOLA: Advocacy for Human Rights in the Americas
10 Jun 2011 | Video

Fumigations and Displacement in Nariño, Colombia: “People gave up … leaving their own land abandoned.”

Senior Associate Adam Isacson talks with Víctor Quiñones, community leader in Chagüí, in the municipality of Tumaco, Nariño, Colombia. His community participated in a U.S.-funded alternative development project that was repeatedly fumigated. Some participants were displaced as a result. He asks that, in future, the government dialogue with the community before going ahead with forced eradication.

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