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83 Colombia - Palo Blanco
Afro-Colombian and indigenous Columbians live in a community threatened by large scale development projects, including a gold mining complex and the flooding of valleys by dams and hydroelectric projects. Buenos Aires was the scene of a massacre in 2001 by Colombia's paramilitary and groups who protect the projects, and who seek to push communities here off their land. Saije Agrono plays with her daughter, Michelle Yarisa.

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