In three decades, 450,664 people were killed and 7,752,964 were victims of forced displacement as a result of the armed conflict. Massacres, disappearances, kidnappings, rape and land dispossession were perpetrated by paramilitaries, guerrillas and members of the armed forces, among others. The state is also to blame. The Truth Commission has documented this reality.
Latin America
A slow investigation: The murder of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
“Bolsonaro has blood on his hands and doesn’t have the courage to say he is very pleased,” said Bruno’s father-in-law, who doubts the minimal efforts of the government and the police to find out the truth behind this double crime. Sara Vivacqua* The double murder has made headlines […]
A truth in the shadows: The murder of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on isolated tribes, and Dom Phillips, a renowned British journalist, disappeared in a remote area of the Amazon rainforest on 5 June. They were brutally murdered in the Amazon after receiving death threats. An interview with Bruno’s father-in-Law, the Indigenist Kleber Gesteira Matos.
In the Amazon, a symbol of resistance
Leader of the Waorani community in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Nemonte Nenquimo is a symbol of resistance after winning a legal battle to protect her reserve. Interview: Daniela Arias Baquero* Photos: Amazon Frontlines The Waorani nation is a tribe of legendary hunter-gatherers numbering around 5,000 members spread across 54 […]
Child waste pickers: saying goodbye to childhood
They live in Bolivia, Panama and Colombia but represent around 18 million worldwide. They are just children who were told they could not have a childhood like many others or go to school. They would have to start working because the poverty of their families had to be fought together. […]
















