Against to Discrimination

In Colombia approximately the 30,6 percent of the population live on the Poverty according to information provided by DANE in 2013. Is important to know that poverty are measured according to incomes levels. One important amount of this percentage of population are compound by Afro-Colombian. Through history, black communities have been one of the most affected population. In this opportunity I want to refer to Afro-Colombian miner’s population. Afro-Colombian miners, especially who are located in the department of Cauca they have been separated and discriminated. They have worked on this activity for over 400 years and for them it is a cultural activity (ancestral activity). Besides, they look miners like a business and legacy that allow them to survive.

 Parents have the obligation to teach their children and the chain keeps in going. This Afro-Colombian community have fought with multinationals and not just right now. This has been a historic fight. They say that people from other places want to establish and take over territories there is mining. As a result to defending their heritage and maintain their territory, Afro-Colombian community located on the Village of Mindala in the Cauca department have been isolated from any employment and transportation. The government promise to relocate people, but that was an illusion. In spite of that, they continue fighting against to multinationals and finally the government reviewed constitutional rights action and recognized that this is ancestral territory that people have been mining from the abolition of slavery up today. The communities presence in the territory has been guaranteed by the resistance of its members, starting with their ancestors, who were brought as slaves.