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 Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its annual report. According…
Only 21% of the land used for gold mining in Colombia operated legally in 2022, the United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its annual report. According…
Violence in Colombia’s main gold mining region escalated after Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez declared “total war” on illegal mining on March 1. The announcement almost immediately triggered a miners’ strike…
Gold has become the most important revenue stream of Colombia’s illegal armed groups, according to the organized crime agencies of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations…
The police commander of a mining town in the north of Colombia was killed on Wednesday morning, according to authorities. According to a police report, “personnel from the Segovia police,…
The United States ambassador in Colombia on multiple occasions implied that the country’s peace process helped boom cocaine production. He could be entirely wrong. Ambassador Kevin Whitaker is right in…
Colombia’s chief prosecutor reportedly wrote the country’s finance minister that legal gold traders have laundered more than $3.3 billion in illegal mining profits since 2015. Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martinez…
Colombia’second largest gold trading company laundered more than $640 million in profits of illegally mined gold in just four years, according to the country’s prosecution. According to prosecutor general Nestor…
Approximately 66% of the gold that is mined in Colombia, one of Latin America’s main gold producers, has been extracted illegally, according to the United Nations. A study carried out…
Francia Marquez, an activist from southwest Colombia, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman prize for extraordinary environmental activists. Marquez, a community leader from the war-torn Cauca department, led a 10-day,…