sentences:  Afro-Colombians and indigenous people were (and continue to be), the targets of the armed actors who want to displace them in order to take their lands for sugar cane plantations, for coffee and banana plantations, for mining and wood exploitation.In 1945 the department of El Chocó was created; it was the first predominantly African political-administrative division.El Chocó gave African people the possibility of building an African territorial identity and some autonomous decision-making power.