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Colombia: Buenaventura Strike Leader Temístocles Machado Assassinated

HeadlineJan 31, 2018

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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