Colombia: What's Behind the Paro Nacional?

An interview with Marcela of Las Organizaciones Sociales de Arauca on the Paro Nacional, or national strike, launched on May 30th by a coalition of peasants, Indigenous peeps, Afro-Colombians, students, truck drivers and precarious workers. Marcela also breaks down the effects of Plan Colombia, 18 years after it was first launched, and the paramilitary violence that continues to target organizers and land defenders.