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January 31, 2018

Colombia: Buenaventura Strike Leader Temístocles Machado Assassinated
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In Colombia, longtime land defender and community leader Temístocles
Machado has been assassinated in the port city Buenaventura. Known to
the community as Temis, he helped lead the massive, three-week-long
civic strike in the Afro-Colombian city this past summer, which was
protesting widespread violence in the region and a lack of basic
services, such as clean water.


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