Nora Taquanas thought that stability had finally come to her part of rural Colombia in 2016, when the government signed a peace deal with the country’s largest guerrilla group to bring half a century of insurgency to an end.
A decade later, she says the conflict in Cauca province, in the south-west of the country between the Pacific Ocean and the foothills of the Andes, is “really much more intense now”.
“In the past, you could point to a group, sit down with the people involved, talk things through,” says Taquanas, a 35-year-old leader of an indigenous community. “We’re now dealing with groups that are driven primarily by economic interests.”