{"id":87156,"date":"2023-06-22T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/la-lucha-de-las-mujeres-afro-del-norte-del-cauca-se-cuenta-en-canciones\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:03:24","slug":"the-struggle-of-afro-colombian-women-in-northern-cauca-is-told-in-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-struggle-of-afro-colombian-women-in-northern-cauca-is-told-in-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"The struggle of Afro-Colombian women in northern Cauca is told in songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Eunice and Nancy Vergara could tell their story in songs, they would. They would tune the guitars, beat the rhythm with their palms and sing, the first as a contralto and the second as a soprano, that being a woman in Buenos Aires, Cauca, is an act of survival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The repertoire would include their days as child laborers, when Eunice carried her little sister Nancy on her back to cut straw and sell it in nearby towns. &#8220;Two arrobas for 20 cents to be able to eat something,&#8221; they recall. Or when their dad, Azahel, was going to kill their mom, Leopoldina, and they both hung onto the shotgun and begged him not to do it, or they would throw themselves into the river. They would sing that when the adults were absent working deep in the jungle, they would turn off the stove and quietly climb onto a loft &#8220;in case the rapist hunters came by,&#8221; and that when they were a little older, the young men and gentlemen would invite them to &#8220;mingar,&#8221; as they referred to having sexual relations, in exchange for giving them coffee beans to sell for a few pesos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the Vergara sisters do not yet compose these songs. The talent they inherited from Azahel, an indigenous violinist, and Leopoldina, a Black singer, they have given to collective service. Both are part of ASOM, the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Association of Afro-descendant Women of Northern Cauca<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a organization where music is at the center of their work: it is the form, it is the tone and it is the color with which women prefer to tell their pains, their longings, their ways of resisting and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/voces-valientes\/asom-cancion\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> even their history<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn La Balsa on April 20,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the year &#8217;97,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 220 women,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we met without a machete;<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from Honduras to Alsace,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we all attended on time,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> leaving our plots and uniting our minds.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is how the ASOM anthem begins, with a fragment that describes the genesis of this organization. In Buenos Aires, gender violence was experienced in the daily lives of many in many ways and without anyone reproaching it. Nancy refers, for example, to the difficulties women had in having economic autonomy, since many husbands were uncomfortable with them working to get resources that would guarantee, for example, better food for their children or the possibility of starting a business or a productive project. In that context, a strong leader named Clemencia Carabal\u00ed arrived at the corregimiento of Honduras, where the Vergara sisters still live today, who, concerned about this and other women&#8217;s rights, was looking for the future members of ASOM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nancy, one of the first to join, remembers that they began by making straw mattresses, the sale of which they sought to improve the quality of life of their families and ensure their economic independence. In the meantime, Clemencia and some allies who joined the process gave training that gave the members of ASOM the first notions about human rights, equity, participation, and protection of the natural resources of their territories. These ideas took hold very quickly in the women, to the point that in a few months Nancy became the first promoter of the organization: she went from region to region replicating what she learned and encouraging other women to join the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, with the arrival of the new millennium, the rural areas and corregimientos of Buenos Aires went from being peaceful towns, of people who cultivated food and worked ancestral gold panning, to being territories disputed by armed actors. The confluence of guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, and state forces put the civilian population at high risk and left thousands of victims of homicide, kidnapping, displacement, threats, disappearance, torture, and other abuses: 23,666, according to the Single Registry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/voces-valientes\/resistiendo-a-la-violencia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The memory of that part of history also became a song<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Afro-descendant women of Buenos Aires and our communities,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we were displaced, forcibly, from &#8217;86, until today.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They insulted us, they humiliated us,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with sexual harassment because of our skin color (\u2026)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The crops were lost, the animals died,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the women were hungry, because of this situation.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Oh my God! What pain to see the desolation,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when the women from the countryside left for the city<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to work in family homes to raise their children.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The armed conflict almost buried ASOM. In Honduras, for example, the women of the organization had to close a grocery store they had built collectively. In La Balsa, a corregimiento of Buenos Aires where the ASOM headquarters are located, the women had to meet in small groups and behind the backs of the armed groups that roamed the area, as meetings had been prohibited. In fact, the anxiety was so great that Clemencia Carabal\u00ed decided not to continue with the organization&#8217;s work. What she did not expect was that the colleagues she mobilized and inspired would prevent it. &#8220;We stood up and said no! We have to continue, we are here together, and together we will get up. We can no longer listen to fear,&#8221; Nancy recalls. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so, despite the intimidation and obstacles that violence put in their way, the history of this collective continued with more force. ASOM no longer only moved its members, but their daughters, their daughters&#8217; daughters, and women in other municipalities of northern Cauca and the Pacific coast of that department. M\u00f3nica Sol\u00eds, Nancy&#8217;s daughter and Eunice&#8217;s niece, was one of them. As a child, she shared household chores with her mom so that she could go to the organization&#8217;s meetings, participated in the making of the straw mattresses they sold, and supported with artistic interventions at the assemblies. But her leadership was honed when she entered a training school for women on political, technical, and socioeconomic issues. Seeing her vocation, Clemencia herself summoned her and other young women to officially join ASOM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;And all this has meant a lot, I feel that I have grown a lot. In any space, you can already have a debate on ethnic issues, and many people approach you to ask about gender-based violence so that you can give them clues about a path,&#8221; says M\u00f3nica, whose two children are part of the third generation of ASOM members as musicians of traditional rhythms and promoters of the organization&#8217;s youth platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The generational handover of leadership is one of the priorities of this collective, which with 230 members and 10 work groups in Cauca, remains firm in its purpose of improving the living conditions of Afro-Colombian women so that they themselves can protect and defend their rights, those of their companions, and those of the territories they inhabit. They do it with learning processes, ventures, productive projects, alternative communication, and a lot of music. It is through songs, tambourines, the guitar, the violin, and the marimba that it has become easier for the women of ASOM to &#8220;talk, clean, get rid of pain, seek hope,&#8221; M\u00f3nica says with pride. It is not for nothing that in 2022 they created a songbook about peace and reconciliation, and with the voices of Eunice, Nancy, and M\u00f3nica, and the instrumental performance of their children and grandchildren, they sang their version of the armed conflict to the Truth Commission:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYes, yes, let&#8217;s seek peace sisters.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yes, yes, let&#8217;s seek peace sisters.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> We have the right to be Black<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and to live in freedom<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yes, yes, to live in freedom.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That&#8217;s why I ask all the youth,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> not to forget about peace<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and we&#8217;re going to tell the truth.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excerpt from the song<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/voces-valientes\/busquemos-la-paz\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Let&#8217;s seek peace&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singing and music are some of the many tools used by ASOM, an organization that has existed since 1997, to prevent gender-based violence and empower a group of 230 members with skills and 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