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19/10/2015

https://vimeo.com/142052671Video with subtite in english 

the Minga of resistance has been a mechanism for indigenous peoples to summon the fight against the invasion of their territories by megaprojects and transnationals, this video realizes the struggle of indigenous and peasant communities in the municipalities of Orito and Villa Garzon Putumayo in the Colombian Amazon against transnational Gran Tierra Energy, also denounced as the company has implemented a strategy paramilitarism pressure for communities to accept oil exploration in its territory, which has brought the assassination of community leaders and attacks on communities; on the other hand the Colombian state since 2013 has been activating sets of special forces to defend the interests of transnational corporations in the territories of communities, increasing persecution of the communities in resistance to these projects in Arauca, Catatumbo and Putumayo

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PASC