Colombia’s prosecution indicted 11 activists for crimes such as kidnapping and robbery amid their peaceful protests against South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti. The locals were charged with multiple criminal…
One of Colombia’s most important emerald miners was assassinated in the capital Bogota on Sunday amid an apparently ongoing dispute over stocks in a mining company. Hernando Sanchez, one of…
The Colombia director of US mining corporation Drummond has been charged for allegedly funding a paramilitary group that assassinated two labor union leaders in 2001. Drummond Colombia boss Jose Miguel…
Multinational NGO’s are visiting Colombia to urge the country’s leaders to abandon controversial treaties that seek to protect foreign investment. Over the past decades, Colombia’s previous governments signed multiple investor…
Rescue workers ended rescue efforts in central Colombia after recovering the bodies of 21 miners who were killed in underground explosions. Two miners were rescued alive on Wednesday in an…
At least 11 miners died and another ten were reported trapped after a series of explosions in a mine in central Colombia. The accident took place in Sutatausa, a municipality…
Multinational Glencore’s subsidiary in Colombia said Thursday that it will abandon its mining interests amid dropping profits, and growing human rights and environmental concerns. In a press release, Glencore subsidiary…
Colombia’s state council upheld a ban on fracking on Tuesday and proceeded to investigate whether the government illegally granted licenses to multinationals. The administration of President Ivan Duque has been…
A gold mining region in the north of Colombia saw its second massacre this month, local media reported on Sunday. Four people, including one minor, were murdered on Saturday in…