00:00What does it feel like to leave home, go to work, or take the children to school?
00:04Does it become a risk? These are the voices of some of the people experiencing lockdown.
00:09In Colombia, a situation in which organized armed groups have a community trapped.
00:14in their own territory, either because they are forbidden to leave, or because they fear dying in the middle
00:20from a crossfire or because anti-personnel mines have defined a perimeter through which they cannot
00:26to move around. The communities are afraid to do their things for fear that in the place
00:31"Where they work or walk there is a presence of mines or other dangerous devices," says one of the victims.
00:37of the lockdown. For those who live in these areas, fear ends up changing activities
00:42as everyday as walking, fishing, or working the land. The farmers cannot work
00:47confidently, because as farmers we want to work the land. But the lockdown also
00:53It can mean being locked up in your own home. What I do with my children when I hear
00:57The bullets mean I have to lock myself in my house. I'm filled with fear, because you never know if at any moment...
01:03Something could happen to one or more of my children. These voices are part of a reality.
01:09which affects thousands of families in Colombia. According to the Victims Unit, with a cut
01:14As of July 1, 2026, more than 239,000 people were registered as victims of confinement.
01:21Nearly 8 out of 10 belong to ethnic communities. And Chocó accounts for 52% of them.
01:28Recorded facts. But behind every number is a story. A community that cannot
01:34Going out to fish. A farmer who cannot work his land. A child who must stay home.
01:40Staying home for fear of bullets. A family afraid to walk through their own territory.
01:45And there are also those who, despite everything, keep hope alive.
01:49This land is ours and we live in this territory. We ask for help so that together with our
01:54so that children and descendants can live well and in peace.
01:58These are the voices of lockdown. Discover their stories, their testimonies, and the figures behind them.
02:04of this humanitarian crisis in the special confinement report produced by El Espectador and Colombia
02:10plus 20.
