State failures in La Guajira have compounded water shortages that bring malnutrition and death In the early hours of the morning, an ambulance carries Rosa Epieyu and her nine-month-old son, Mateo, ...

The Wayuu, the indigenous people of northern Colombia and Venezuela, have a saying molded by the centuries of hardship they have endured: It is only from strong sunlight and harsh rains, that a seed ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Lack of access to clean water is leading to alarmingly high levels of child mortality and malnutrition among Colombia’s largest Indigenous group — problems that could grow ...

Wayúu native children pose during a ceremony in Guajira, Colombia. (Photo: Diana Sanchez/AFP/Getty Images) Charred by the pulsing heat, the Earth has turned to dust. Rivers have thinned to threads.

In partnership with UNICEF, the Halü Foundation and the indigenous Wayúu people of northern Colombia, the Baxter International Foundation is helping bring safe water and sanitation to thousands. The ...

At the far northern tip of Colombia, the Guajira Peninsula juts out into the Caribbean Sea like a hitchhiker’s thumb. It’s a parched, desert landscape of sand dunes and baked earth, crisscrossed by ...

Rosa is an elder of the matriarchal tribe Wayuu, in Northeastern Colombia. Rosa is a 50-year-old Wayuu elder who lives in Northeastern Colombia with her family. The Wayuu culture is matriarchal, and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Wayuú Women’s Force, founded in 2006, is an Indigenous organization that denounces the coal mining that has dammed and contaminated rivers, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Synonymous in Colombia with extreme poverty and abandonment, the peninsula of La Guajira faces drought and coal dust pollution from one the world’s ...