At the beginning of December 2015 we accompanied Nomadesc to the fourth ‘Marking Our Territory’ meeting which took place in Buenaventura, in the Valle del Cauca department. We had the great pleasure to meet and spend time with Taita Javier Calambás Tunubalá, a moving and endearing person who inspires respect and admiration. This leader of the Misak or Guambiano people was one of the founders of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca – CRIC in 1971 and led the struggle to the recovery of the Misak territory and the process of unity among the different indigenous, afro-descendants and rural communities of Colombia.

Delphine