Photo: Mainor Ortiz Delgado's home, damaged by in December 2018 by the family of the shooter. Courtesy of Forest Peoples Programme

By John McPhaul

Mainor Ortiz Delgado, a member of the Indigenous Bribri Tubolwak clan, was shot in the leg by a trespasser on February 9, 2020, on his farm in Rio Azul de Salitre in southwestern Costa Rica. This act of is part of an ongoing wave of violence spurring from the Costa Rican government’s failure to implement Indigenous land rights and bring sanctions on non-Indigenous settlers on Indigenous land.

By John McPhaul

The Costa Rican Superintendency of Telecommunications (SUTEL by its Spanish acronym) issued instructions to award two projects in the amount of $47.9 million to bring telephone and internet services to 14 Indigenous territories in the Atlantic and South Zone of the country.
 

By John McPhaul

The Agrarian Court of the II Judicial Circuit of San José, Costa Rica, recently revoked a sentence of Judge Jean Carlo Céspedes Mora of Buenos Aires of Puntarenas in which he ordered the eviction of Indigenous people who had recovered land within the Brörán Indigenous territory, according to website CulturaCR.net.

Por John McPhaul

Del 8 al 10 de agosto de 2019, los líderes indígenas celebraron el primer Congreso Nacional Indígena (CONGRESO INDÍGENA NACIONAL - COIN) en San Antonio de Belén, en las afueras de San José, Costa Rica, donde siete de las ocho naciones indígenas costarricenses se reunieron para discutir los desafíos que enfrentan la población indígena en el país.

By Allen Perez                                                    En español

Por Allen Perez

On the evening of March 18, 2019, Indigenous leader Sergio Rojas Ortiz was assassinated in his residence in Salitre de Buenos Aires, part of the Puntarenas province, after being shot multiple times.

Por Allen Perez

En horas de la noche del día 18 de marzo de 2019, el dirigente Indígena nacional, Sergio Rojas Ortiz, fue asesinado víctima múltiples disparos, hecho ocurrido en su casa ubicada en Salitre de Buenos Aires (en la localidad de Yeri), provincia de Puntarenas, al Pacífico sur del país.

By John McPhaul

Fear still reigns in Indigenous country after the murder of Bribri Indigenous leader Sergio Rojas, who was shot and killed on March 18, 2019, while he slept in the small village of Yeri in the Salitre Indigenous Territory, in southwestern Costa Rica.