The affected residents (los afectados) were primarily a displaced communities who relocated to the city due to a prolonged insurgency and violence associated with the coca growing trade in the surrounding Bajo Putumayo region.
Ayesha Siddiqi
Doctor Ayesha Siddiqi is currently Assistant Professor in Human Geography of Cambridge University. She is a postcolonial geographer whose research examines mainly how disaster risks are produced and lived on the margins of the postcolony.