Documental - Ijua Tai Nae: Nuestra Madre Tierra

In the Alto San Juan subregion, on the banks of the Mondó River, the Emberá Katío community of the Mondó Mondocito Indigenous Reserve saw their territory, surrounded by mountains and jungles, become a battleground between illegal armed groups and the Army. Their dirt roads became the scene of fighting that terrified the entire community, to such an extent that it caused the mass displacement of its inhabitants on December 1, 2012. The documentary “Ijua Tae Nae: Our Mother Earth” narrates, through the memories of the Emberá Katío people, the arrival of the armed conflict in their territory, their return to the reserve in 2013, and their struggle to defend their rights as an Indigenous community; primarily through teaching their traditions to new generations and the creation of the Indigenous Guard. “We don’t have weapons; we defend our territory politically using words.” This documentary was produced by the Reparations Strategy of the National Center for Historical Memory, within the framework of compliance with order number 11 of the sentence for the restitution of territorial rights number 52 of November 29, 2017, in favor of the Mondó Mondocito Reserve.