The black communities of the General Community Council of San Juan (ACADESAN), which represents hundreds of black families organized along the rivers of the southern department of Chocó, in the southern part of Colombia, are facing possible material dispossession of a portion of their territory, larger than a country like Malta.

Since 2012, the then company Desarrollo e Inversiones Progreso Verde —today, Eightfold Colombia—, has done its best to take over 32,450 hectares of a biodiverse paradise located in the municipality of Sipí. A piece of jungle where Afro-descendant families have lived for generations on the margins of state protection and their guarantees, and under the risk of an endless war.

Today, the title is entangled in a tangle of companies, lawyers and businessmen in Panama, the United States and Canada; but all the threads are woven around Daniel Alexander White, a Canadian businessman who carries on his back legal litigation, tax investigations and a discredited reputation in the way he does business.