Colombia’s Comptroller General’s Office issued a warning to the national government Monday over the unchecked use of mercury in over half of the country’s 32 states.
In the latest effort against illegal mining, the Colombian government has created a new unit dedicated to stopping illegal mining in the country, according to a press release by Colombia’s…
The FARC, Colombia’s largest rebel group, owns more than 67 diggers in just one town in the north of the country, leasing the machines to local gold miners in exchange…
New waves of violence have emerged from the fragmentation of Colombia’s neo-paramilitary groups and drug cartels, concentrated in Colombia’s central region and Caribbean and Pacific coasts but is present in…
Sixteen people were arrested Thursday for the crimes of natural resource damage, pollution, and illegal exploitation of mineral deposits, which caused the displacement of several indigenous communities. According to authorities,…