This is supposed to be the age of technology. You know — the days of AI, the eve of the robot takeover. You’ve seen all the sci-fi movies. Instead, it’s turning into the year of the chicken.

She lives in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Riohacha, in northern Colombia’s arid, wind-swept region, where thousands of other Wayuu people, native to the La Guajira region spanning ...