Rancheria, the river that was stolen

Rancheria, the river that was stolen

The beginning of the extermination of the Wayuu people.

 

In the desert and peninsular Colombian department of La Guajira, a region of maternal ancestors that inspired magical realism in the work of the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Gabriel García-Márquez, something has happened that, according to experts, marks the process of extermination of the largest indigenous nation in Colombia: an entire river was stolen. The only river in that region of the country.