The Tule, the indigenous people that resists on the Colombian-Panamanian border | Video

Arquía (Colombia), May 11 (EFE), (Camera: Juan Diego López).- The Tule, an indigenous people living on the border between Colombia and Panama, resisted and continue to resist, as guardians of their customs, the paramilitaries who threatened them, displaced them and wanted to starve them to death, without being oblivious to the conflict that surrounds them.

On the borders of the Darien Gap, the Tule (also called Cuna or Gunadule) keep more than 2,800 hectares - almost one-sixth recovered thanks to a land restitution sentence - mostly of jungle and mountain forest, where they maintain small houses made of wooden planks and roofs of branches that serve as their home, communal house or school.

The conflict and paramilitary control of this border area, which connects to the Caribbean, took away their communication routes with their Gunadule families living on the other side of the border, in Panama, and also confined them and threatened their existence, with massacres such as the one of seven indigenous people in January 2003.

Metadata

Date: 11/05/2022 12:00 (UTC)
Source: EFE
Topic: Politics
Disaster and accident
Unrest and conflicts
Type: Ready-to-use
Duration: 90 seconds
Reference: 7001166634
Relevance: Normal