WAR IN COLOMBIA:
TWO NEW DOCUMENTARY FILMS IN POST-PRODUCTION

Indigenous people displaced by paramilitaries and multinational companies in Valle del Cáuca / Photo: Unai Aranzadi © 2011
Colombia, the fourth largest country in South America has substantial oil reserves and is a major producer of gold, silver, emeralds, platinum and coal, but also has a highly stratified society where the traditionally rich families of spanish descent have benefited from this wealth to a far greater degree than the majority, mixed-race and native population. With few avenues for social mobility, this provided a natural constituency for left-wing insurgency. In those two new films, produced on assignment for non governmental organization MUNDUBAT, human rIghts activists argue that while guerrilla have been weakened, the underlying causes of the conflict, which is inequality, still present and under the influence of massive corruption, drug dealing and, state-backed, paramilitaries.
