As Colombia’s government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels implement a historic peace deal that ended over 50 years of civil war, the country’s Afro-Colombian population still suffers. Human rights observers and media reports detail ongoing murders and forced displacement by armed groups, including the Gaitanista Self-Defenses of Colombia (AGC).

In early January 2017, AGC fighters killed human rights defenders Juan De la Cruz and his son, Moisés Mosquera Moreno. We talk about the murders and continued violent repression of Colombia’s of Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities with Gimena Sánchez, senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America.