Indigenous Colombians resist toxic anti-drug spraying

An indigenous community in Northwest Colombia, subjected to aerial-spraying of illegal coca crops, is insisting that the government respect their rights, land and lives.

‘The local Embera community has reported that the spraying has contaminated their water and crops and is causing community members, including children, to fall sick’.

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