Abby Reyes: Tales of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice | Climate One

April 30, 2025

“After Abby Reyes' partner and two other land rights advocates were murdered near Indigenous U’wa territory in Colombia in 1999, Reyes struggled to recover from her loss and pursue justice at the same time. ‘I walked into adulthood through the gates of these murders,” she writes in her new book “Truth Demands.’ ‘I felt pressed up against the machinery of fossil fuel extraction, tied there by the dismal facts of murders known and unknown. These circumstances sped up my training as a human being…’ — a training that ultimately led to a victory for the U’wa people…”