On the night of Friday, June 28, sources from the National Police confirmed to EL TIEMPO that yesterday – at around 9:50 p.m. – Eyver Danilo Poto Pazu, a well-known indigenous leader in Cauca, was found dead.
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Poto’s body, according to the Police report, was found on the side of the road in the El Palo de Calixto district and has gunshot wounds in different parts of the body.
It should be noted that Poto had been reported kidnapped on June 22, when he was intercepted on the El Tierrero road, in Caloto (Cauca), apparently by two men known by the aliases of Pájaro and ‘Avelino’, alleged members of the ‘Dagoberto Ramos’ front‘, a structure that is part of the ‘Central General Staff’.
Poto is registered in the database of the Ministry of the Interior as a member of the San Francisco – Tacueyo indigenous reservation in the municipality of Toribío.
Cauca indigenous people.
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Poto’s family and members of his community have launched several calls for respect for the life of the person they call a “community member.”
In a statement, the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca rejected the murder of Poto and stated that, “We continue to be victims of the strategy of aggression implemented by armed groups against indigenous communities, who intimidate, kidnap and murder to our community members, just as it also happened in the territory of Miranda on February 24 when Florentino Mesa was murdered.”
Poto is the stepson of the vice minister for Ethnic Peoples, Nelson Lemus, who has not spoken out so far.
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