MOVICE Sucre Chapter accompanies the community’s process of returning to the La Europa farm. Photo: Charlotte Kesl

Since the MOVICE Sucre Chapter founded in 2006, its members have been attacked more than 100 times. They have been victims of robbery, stalking by suspicious persons, threats in person or via email, and murder. As the organisation’s spokesperson Ingrid Vergara explains, “Since 2004 we have carried out our work investigating and documenting the problem of paramilitary infiltration into politics because we wanted people to know what was happening; because of this we have suffered harassment as individuals.”

In the last weeks of June of this year, the pressure was increasing on MOVICE Sucre members Ingrid Vergara, Franklin Torres, Candelaria Barrios and Pedro Geney, as well as Yeison Pava, a lawyer for the Permanent Committee for the Defence of Human Rights. Pava has accompanied the process of the community’s return to the La Europa farm.[1]