 In 2010 the city's murder rate saw the steepest decline in Colombia, down by 26.5%.In June 2011, women organized in the so-called Crossed Legs Movement in the secluded town of Barbacoas in southwestern Colombia, started a sex strike to pressure the government to repair the road connecting Barbacoas and its neighboring towns and cities.They declared that if the men of the town were not going to demand action, they would refuse to have sex with them.