Club Jacobin

Colombian Indians in the country’s southwestern Cauca province will put three leftist rebels on trial after they were captured with explosives and automatic rifles on their territory, while indigenous authorities are resuming talks with a government delegation aimed at ending two weeks of unrest in the troubled region.

Local Indians have risen up against government troops and leftist Farc guerrillas in what they claim is their territory in the northern part of the province.

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