Building peace in Colombia was the focus of the international conference in Chicago where Orlando Valencia, an Afro-Colombian activist, was invited to speak about his community's struggle to defend its land from agribusiness interests and paramilitary forces. He never showed up. Valencia was representing Jiguamiand [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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