Tag: illegal mining
Only 21% of land used for gold mining in Colombia has permits: UN
Only 21% of the land used for gold mining in Colombia operated legally in 2022, the United...
Colombia’s ‘total war’ on illegal mining shuts down gold mining region
Violence in Colombia’s main gold mining region escalated after Defense Minister Ivan...
How Colombia’s gold finances illegal armed groups
Gold has become the most important revenue stream of Colombia’s illegal armed groups,...
Police commander of northern Colombia mining town killed
The police commander of a mining town in the north of Colombia was killed on Wednesday morning,...
Can regulation rather than repression solve Colombia’s drug problem
The United States ambassador in Colombia on multiple occasions implied that the country’s...
Colombia gold traders laundered more than $3 billion since 2015: prosecution
Colombia’s chief prosecutor reportedly wrote the country’s finance minister that legal...
Colombia’s #2 gold trader laundered $640M: prosecution
Colombia’second largest gold trading company laundered more than $640 million in profits of...
66% of Colombia’s gold is mined illegally: UN study
Approximately 66% of the gold that is mined in Colombia, one of Latin America’s main gold...
Afro-Colombian leader scoops prestigious environmental award
Francia Marquez, an activist from southwest Colombia, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman...
Colombia arrests brother of paramilitary leader
Colombia’s security forces have arrested the brother of “Otoniel,” the leader of...
Police in northern Colombia find incinerated bodies of 5 alleged miners
Authorities in the northwest Colombian province of Antioquia said Thursday that they have found...
Inhabitants of east Colombia province have 60 times more than average mercury in body
Inhabitants of an eastern Colombian province have between 60 and 109 times more mercury in their...
