Toribio: War in the Cauca Region

Latin Pulse brings you this episode of the Colombian TV show Contravía, where journalist Hollman Morris and his team travel to a remote community in Southern Colombia to eat, sleep and live with the Nasa Indians through a period of fear, displacement and anguish.

With their homes turned into battlegrounds, the indigenous community around Toribío continue their peaceful resistance to the invasion of free trade, armies and guerrillas. Morris combines this inside experience with personal testimonies from all sides, for a transparent exploration of Colombia's drawn-out conflict.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's organization, The Foundation for a New Iberian-American Journalism, awarded Contravía's episode Toribío its highest prize in 2007, for their efforts to raise visibility for the victims of war in a censored and bellicose media environment.

For more information on the Colombian journalistic TV show Contravia, you can visit:

www.contravia.tv

For more information on the work of Hollman Morris and other independent journalists in Colombia, watch our previous show: Colombia: Stories That Kill.

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[vals1927]

pirobo comandante como sera tu valentia que ni siquiera sabes a que horas fue el ataque en esos momentos yo creo que estabas en tu casa bien asustado perrro

[karlsiegmund1]

the children want to grow up to be farc members you can see it in there eyes when they interview them

[envanje]

22:36 who pays? The children who are psychologically destroyed.

If you analyse very carefully that happened in Europe too, be it by kind but false words and wrong education.

[envanje]

The whole problem of this war is still the clashes of cultures like it was in Atahualpa's times.

Jewish - European culture with its unjustified sentiment of supremacy, its want for organisation and its exagerated interest in the written word versus Indigenous culture with people just wanting to live their way according their traditions.

[envanje]

tengo tengo tengo tu no tienes nada tengo tres obejas en una cabana una me da leche una me da lana otra me mantiene todo la semana calballito blanco lleva me de aqui lleva me a mi tierre donde you naci I learned this song when I was in Latin America amongst many other folk songs.

[alejandro59]

suena a parcialidad de estos dos patos. no es nada nuevo la complicidad de los indigenas para con la guerilla. entonces es el ejercito el culpable? no los he escuchado quejandose de la destruccion hecha por los bandidos.

como se humaniza esta atrocidad de los bandidos? dialogando? me parece que con mas colaboracion de los indigenas y mas fuerza publica.

le duele mas que le llamen guerrillero que lo causado por los bandidos.

[malecon77]

@fardavari

ve a pelear tu tambien alla

[CrazyNative4]

it must suck to be an indigenous person living in colombia ! :(

[CaliCal68]

How did you put an hr worth of video on youtube? what kind of format is this? thanks for the video

[fardavari]

Thanks Linktv for support latin puls.

My advise to pueblo indigenos is " resistencia con toda fe e con sacrificar sangre ".