Cauca Department

The judge had asked the culture ministry, which had ordered the removals, to explain the rationale and necessity of the decision, subsequently ruling that those explanations were insufficient and that civil rights and due process had been violated.

A spate of explosive attacks hit southwest Colombia this weekend targeting the departments of Huila, Cauca and Tolima, with five people killed and numerous injured, mostly civilians.

The attacks largely involved vehicles loaded with explosives, though the use of drones has also been reported.

The president subsequently announced the intensification of his iron fist security approach, promising more bombings, the scaling up of military operations, and the resumption of aerial spraying of illicit crops.

When did you decide to make the full plunge and say, I'm living in Cali, that's it?

Right.

Okay, well, at this stage, it was a move for family because I actually have a son who's obviously half Colombian, and he's from the Valle del Cauca region.

So he came here with his mother, and I decided to locate as well.

I was born in a small town.

place in the Cauca department, which is one of the areas that has a lot of richness of birds.

I remember some of my memories when I was a child watching some rufous-colored sparrow that used to nest in the middle of my mom's orchids.

So I started watching this bird when I was five years old.

But in the meantime, we've got this other Colombian coffee on offer, Colombian Papayan Filter Coffee.

It's a single origin from the slopes of the Andes mountain range in Colombia's Cauca region.

The Popayan Reserve, a carefully selected coffee produced by around 50 local growers.

This one, and it's got tasting notes of cacao, caramel, and citrus.

Where are they operating primarily?

Intelligence reporting places their operations heavily in the departments of Catatumbo, Cauca, and Meta.

They are also utilizing the border with Ecuador as a strategic sanctuary.

Which was underscored by a recent three hundred and ninety-seven kilogram cocaine seizure in that exact border corridor.

Miren lo que es la vida.

En el Cauca, en Cali.

Y yo creo que en el fondo, lo que uno se imaginaba que iba a pasar, todos pensábamos que era que era demasiado temprano y que no iba a salir mucha gente, pues no ocurrió, salió gente.

Mis invitadas de hoy para esta a-análisis, primer balance de esta jornada de protesta que se hace a tan solo dos, eh, meses de llegado al poder Abelardo de la Espriella, es Cathy Juvinao, aquí representante a la Cámara por el partido...

In today's Back of the Brief, a car bomb tore through a toll booth in southwestern Colombia, injuring civilians as the government's fight against guerrilla groups spills onto a major highway.

The blast was witnessed Monday along the Pan American Highway near El Bordo in Colombia's southwest Cauca Department, south of the major city of Cali.

At least three civilians were injured.

The military says the group responsible was the Carlos Patino Front.

Colombian President Espriella condemned the bombing, saying, quote, I deplore this terrorist attack.

Attacking infrastructure harms people, truck drivers, and all those who need to travel, end quote.

And this was already a deadly stretch in Cauca.

On Friday, members of the same Carlos Patino Front clashed with Colombian soldiers in the municipality of Timbio.

But if you do want to go to the Pacific Coast, the kind of musical heartland of it is just south of Cali down the coast in places like Timbiqui or Huapi.

And those are actually in the department of Cauca.

And they require little flights to get out to.

You might be able to take a little boat down from Buena Ventura.

From your very first trip to the Colombian Amazon until now, how has spending time with indigenous leaders changed your worldview?

So I have been lucky enough to spend some time with indigenous leaders.

The organization I referred to a couple of minutes ago is actually made up entirely of spiritual leaders from five different indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon, in Putamayo, Caqueta, Cauca, and actually a piece of Ecuador from five different ethnicities that are all classified as in danger of cultural and physical extermination by the Colombian government.

And so they've banded together and created an organization.

Durante la década de los noventa, la geografía colombiana atravesaba por dinámicas de conflicto interno y desplazamiento que dejaron a miles de familias en condiciones de extrema pobreza.

En los valles del Quindo, Risaralda, Cauca y el Valle del Cauca, cientos de niños debían trabajar en las calles vendiendo dulces, limpiando parabrisas o caminando solos por trochas rurales para llegar a sus escuelas.

Garavito comprendió con una frialdad matemática que estos niños eran invisibles para el sistema.

Para acercarse a ellos, desarrolló una galería de disfraces que mutaban según la región.