Catatumbo’s ‘Care-Land’: how local initiatives sustain humanitarian relief amid escalating violence in Colombia’s borderland with Venezuela

By Silke Oldenburg, Senior Researcher in Anthropology, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
Anna Leander, Professor, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
Nora Doukkali, Doctoral Researcher in International Relations and Political Sciences

In Colombia’s coca-cultivating Catatumbo region on the border with Venezuela, community care and survival efforts amid escalating violence are in a state of emergency.

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