[Colombia] Protests: Peaceful protest

Summary

Single-source ACLED detection — awaiting independent verification. On March 21, 2025, 53 families from the Embera Indigenous community of Jarijinamana staged a peaceful protest outside the mayor's office in Riohacha, La Guajira, Colombia, demanding respect for their autonomy and opposing a planned eviction from their lands scheduled for March 25.

Supply-chain impact

No commodities or chokepoints are directly mapped to this event; second-order effects depend on how the situation escalates. La Guajira is a significant coal-producing region, so prolonged Indigenous land disputes could potentially affect mining operations if the conflict expands beyond this localized protest.

Watch points

• Monitor for escalation of the planned March 25 eviction and potential expansion of protests across La Guajira's Indigenous communities
• Track any government response or mediation efforts that could resolve the land autonomy dispute peacefully