Southwest Colombia tribe expels National Police for drug dealing

written by Adriaan Alsema
May 3, 2017


An indigenous tribe from southwest Colombia on Wednesday expelled the National Police from its territory, claiming cops were using the police station to sell drugs to local youth.

The people from the indigenous reserve of Purace, Cauca, decided to evict the state authority after a meeting between the indigenous locals, their formal Guard and the Reserve Authority.

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The police’s drug dealing was a bad influence on the community’s youth, the indigenous said and took place less than a half year after the community expelled the local military unit on charges the soldiers had assassinated a former governor.



Colombia’s indigenous reserves are partly autonomous and have their own justice system based on the individual nation’s ancestral customs.

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