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Quito, Oct 12 (EFE).- The indigenous community of Ecuador commemorated Tuesday its "Day of Resistance" with a staging at the House of Ecuadorian Culture in Quito, reiterating the economic and social demands of the community to the president, Guillermo Lasso."The president has not taken any single step" to solve social problems, said Leónidas Iza, president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) at the ceremony. (Camera: JUAN FRANCISCO CHAVEZ). SHOT LIST: THE CEREMONY TO COMMEMORATE THE DAY OF RESISTANCE OF ECUADOR AT THE HOUSE OF ECUADORIAN CULTURE, IN QUITO, ECUADOR.
Bogota, Oct 4 (EFE).- At least 800 indigenous Colombians, who have taken refuge in the National Park of Bogota, on Monday asked the Colombian government for help and said they would not return to their villages due to the violence in the areas. Most of the indigenous people, from Colombia's western Chocó department, have been forcibly displaced due to armed clashes between drug gangs seeking to dominate the area. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ).SHOT LIST: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE CHOCO DEPARTMENT TAKE REFUGE IN THE NATIONAL PARK, IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.
Bogotá, Oct 2 (EFE).- About 350 people from the Embera indigenous community continued Saturday to camp in the Bogotá National Park after they were evicted earlier this week from the house where they lived in the Vista Hermosa neighborhood of Ciudad Bolívar.This group was displaced from the Chocó region and arrived in Bogotá a year ago. They received monetary aid and subsidies from the Victims Unit and the District but when these grants ended, they decided to stay at the emblematic Bogota park. (Camera: JUAN CARLOS GOMI).B-ROLL OF THE INDIGENOUS CAMP IN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA.
Residents of the old town of Marrakesh, who were displaced by last weekend's powerful earthquake, wake up in a football stadium, which has been turned into a shelter by Moroccan authorities. The magnitude 6.8 earthquake -- Morocco's strongest ever -- has killed nearly 3,000 pople and injured more than 5,600 since it hit last Friday in Al-Haouz province, south of tourist hub Marrakesh. The number of people left without homes by the quake is not known. IMAGES
Santa Cruz, Oct 14 (EFE).- The indigenous people of the Amazon and eastern Bolivia who marched for more than a month to the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz on asked two United Nations delegates Thursday to help them set up a meeting with representatives of the four powers of the State.The demand was raised during a meeting with the head of the Technical Mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Antonio Menéndez De Zubillaga, and the Human Rights officer María Gomes Werneck. (Camera: JUAN PABLO ROCA).SHOT LIST: THE MEETING BETWEEN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND THE UNITED NATIONS DELEGATES IN SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA.