The volcanic fissure Caulle has been erupting continuously for nine months, launching ashes and gasses into the atmosphere and disrupting air travel and agricultural activities around the Cordón area. To this day, there is no evidence relating the health problems that people in Pocura and Riñinahue commonly experience, including eye and throat irritation, to exposure to the volcanic eruption. On June 4, 2010, at around 2 p.m., a smoke column ascended over the region of Entrelagos, capping off a series of tremors that shook the area as a telling sign of what was to come. Military and Chilean police arrived to evacuate nearby residents and relocate them to shelters in the nearest cities, such as Lago Ranco.

Gaucho is a term commonly used to describe residents of the South American pampas, Gran Chaco, or Patagonian grasslands, found principally in parts of Southern Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, eastern and southern Bolivia and Southern Chile. In Brazil, gaúcho is also the main gentilic of the people from the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Plagued by almost 50 years of civil war, 200.000 Internally Displaced People (IDP) have been forced to flee from their regions, in Colombia, seeking asylum in Venezuela. The dynamics of this forced migration are unique, as the whole process has been growing slowly and silently, through five decades. If compared to other countries under siege -where huge masses are suddenly displaced by conflicts- the phenomenon was almost unnoticed for its slow nature.

The region of northern Cauca, has been for over 50 years a stronghold of the FARC. With the visit of President Santos to the town of Toribio on July 11, 2012, many situations came together to show the world that this area is far from being controlled, as the official media tell us. As civilians, mostly ethnic Nasa indigenous and peasants, who are in the middle of armed conflict between state forces and guerrillas of the FARC, the indigenous authorities through the Indigenous Guard have decided to remove the armed groups in the area. They want no more war on their ancestral lands.