As a tradition of almost 50 years in Colombia, the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca CRIC and other organizations in which indigenous communities such as the Nasa, Coconucos, Totoroes, Yanaconas, Guambianos, Kiwe Thegnas participate, among others, initiate the Minga (indigenous meeting) but this year with an additional difficulty, the Covid-19 pandemic, however it was not an impediment to carry out their fight. In Colombia, the Minga represents strength, collective work in search of a common good: the defense of life, territory, peace and democracy. They had been convening a face-to-face meeting with President Iván Duque in the department of Cauca for more than a year to discuss the increase in violence due to the presence of armed groups in their territories, the substitution of crops, the recent massacres and assassinations of indigenous social leaders.
Not having any response from the president, they decide to go in a caravan to Cali where they were not attended by the government either and where more than ten thousand indigenous people decide to cross around 700 kilometers in caravan to reach Bogotá as a symbolic act of protest, passing through 3 cities and lasting 5 days in its journey, finally joining the national strike on October 21 and leaving a message of hope and forceful resistance to the country.