Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published December 21, 2009.
In Colombia, There are 87 indigenous groups native to the country. Thirty-four of them are facing extinction according to that country’s supreme court. Human rights groups say that fighting between the Colombian Army and the FARC rebels is pushing hundreds of indigenous groups into urban areas where they face poverty and where they begin to lose their way of life.
In the first part of a series on Colombia´s endangered tribes, Manuel Rueda visited the Jiw people in the Guaviare province.
