Cacarica´s Basin is located in Bajo Atrato, Chocó department, near Panama, and is known for being one of the most biodiverse areas of the planet and home to ancestral civilizations, not only Afro-descendant, but also indigenous, especially Embera.

Years after the forced displacement carried out under false counterinsurgent operations, the communities went back to their territories to recover their traditional ways of life. However, the institutionalized violence suffered in Colombia is today featured by megaprojects and false projects for the development of communities which are building dignified ways of life outside the imported development model.

However, the communities that have returned to the region are offered to join the carbon credit business, with which they would compromise their property over the territories. Also, there are plans to build Panamericana highway in this area,

which will link Colombia to Panama by destroying, literally, one of the richest regions of the planet in terms of biodiversity, known as Tapon del Darien.

Worried by these two impositions exerted by the Colombian government, and by their consequences, last week, communities of Bajo Atrato in Choco department carried out the Inter-ethnic Regional Meeting in Nueva Esperanza.

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