Aida Quilcué
Between 2003 and 2009, she was appointed Senior Counselor of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC). She was one of the organizers of the 2008 Indigenous Minga. In the event, thousands of indigenous people marched to the city of Bogotá in protest. Her husband, Edwin Legarda, died on December 16 in a hospital in Popayán after receiving three rifle shots. Her husband was fired by soldiers on the highway connecting Inzá with Totoró, in the department of Cauca . During the trial and in the following years, Quilcué and her daughter have been victims of death threats and attacks.