![]() That’s why as of November 27, 5PM, these twenty-two women have been occupying the offices of the Ministry of the Interior until their demands-all ten of them-are met. Yet, despite the law, constant protests, and multiple commissions, these companies and paramilitaries continue to function without impunity in Cauca. ![]() Since 2009, these companies have illegally entered La Toma without the permission required by the prior consultations, or consultas previas, a legal mechanism guaranteed by the 1991 Colombian constitution requiring that communities in historically ancestral communities like La Toma must approve of any interventions into their territories. Arriving to Bogotá on November 27, these women were marching hundreds of miles from their historic gold-mining community of La Toma to speak against the violence and destruction caused by the explosion of illegal, large-scale gold-mining projects controlled by national and transnational corporations and protected by paramilitaries who continuously threaten the women and their families. As thousands across the United States emptied into the streets demanding an end to police brutality and state violence in the wake of a grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson in late November, a group of twenty-two black women from northern Cauca in Colombia were marching on foot to the nation’s capital of Bogotá to assert that black lives also matter in Colombia.
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