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.
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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.