The contemporary political history of Native Americans in Brazil

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Special Indian Districting: Unresolved Political Problems in Colombia: By Alfonso Palma Capera and Oskar Benjamin Gutirrez, Abya Yala News, Fall, 1994. Members of the Colombian Indigenous movement are re-evaluating its political participation as a way to obtain their objectives. On March 13, they had elected two representatives to the Senate thanks to the system of Special Electoral Districting (CEE), one of the most important political achievements of the Colombian Indigenous movement.
Colombian Indigenous Leaders Murdered: Weekly Update on the Americas, 9 November 1997. Heavily armed soldiers killed two members of the San Andres de Sotavento reservation: Riondo (an indigenous governor and leader of the reservation) and Polo (an artisan and a healer). At the time of her death, Rondo was a member of the board of directors of the Regional Autonomous Corporation of the Valleys of Sinu and San Jorge.
Please help save the Embera Nation: From Colombia Support Network, 23 August 1999. Paramilitary groups have ordered the Embera Peoples in the Urabá region of Colombia to leave their ancestral territories or they will be massacred. The paramilitary groups are accusing the Embera Peoples of collaborating with the guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Colombian Indians Resist an Encroaching War: Indigenous People Join To Search for Leader: By Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 18 June 2001. More than 1,000 of Colombia's indigenous people have traveled to Tierralta to protest a war that is consuming their land, language and people, by means of a largely symbolic search for a leader of the Embera Katio tribe that controls strategic stretches of northwestern Colombia.
Colombian Indians Accuse Government: By Margarita Martinez, AP, 25 July 2001. Indian leaders are being gunned down. Warring factions are encroaching on the reservations. A U.S.-financed drug eradication offensive is dumping herbicide on Indian land. Although indigenous rights are enshrined in the constitution, the government is doing nothing to protect Colombia's 800,000 Indians.
Indigenous face down rebels: Weekly News Update on the Americas, 18 November 2001. Some 4,500 Paez indigenous people from six reservations intervened to halt an attack by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on the police station in the town of Caldono in Cauca department. The indigenous came in response to a plea for help from reservation governor, and the Paez men, women and children placed themselves between the rebels and police (brief).
Cauca: Chomsky Interview: By Noam Chomsky and Justin Podur, ZNet Commentary, 15 July 2002. The municipalities of Toribio and Jambalo in Northern Cauca are being bombarded by both FARC and the Colombian government. Northern Cauca is home to one of the most remarkable experiments in resistance to neoliberalism and in the actual construction of alternatives in the hemisphere, not to mention a courageous and unarmed struggle for peace. Noam Chomsky visited Cauca several months ago and assess the situation there.