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I witnessed plenty of racism in Colombia during my extended visits there. Colombia had a brutal slave history of black people under Spanish rule going back 500 years, equally their indigenous groups have very little land to live their own way of life or have been displaced due to +50 years of violence, land grabs etc.. Ultimately landowners and the big corps, will continue to control everything with the assistance of the US. All this despite efforts for peace and reconciliation with the remaining left wing guerilla groups in recent years. Atrocities by all sides, but Colombia’s black and native populations suffered more than most.
I agree with Lw, in the context of Colombia, everyone in that country need to challenge the ultra wealthy and their paramilitary protection, not consider black slave descendants and indigenous people part of their flora and fauna.