RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A shootout last Sunday left several gunshot wounds in the intensive care ward of the main hospital in Quibdó, a Colombian city plagued by violence imposed by the ELN guerrillas, the Gulf Clan, and the local narco group “Fuerzas Armadas Mexicanas” (Mexican Armed Forces).
Men with long-range weapons crossed the San Francisco de Asis hospital to reach the dock of the mighty Atrato river where a boat was waiting for them, facilitating their escape from another gang following them from the neighboring sector.
Chocó is the only Colombian department to have coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. (Photo internet reproduction)
A Plea to Recognize the Legal Rights of the Maas River I am advocating for a new legal status for the Maas in the hope that it becomes the first river in Europe with rights. Jessica den Outer
April 16, 2021
As a child, I frequently visited the Maas River in the Netherlands with my father. I loved listening to the sounds of flowing water, the birds singing and the leaves crunching beneath my feet as we walked alongside the river. At that age I was not aware of the challenges that the river was facing. Back then, I could not have imagined that two decades later I would be advocating for this river’s rights.
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