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Colombia, Ecuador & Peru Snapshot: Companies with properties to watch While Colombia, Ecuador and some parts of Peru are less explored than some more established mining jurisdictions, the three countries feature a rich mining history and prospective geology. Below, we showcase eight companies active in South America. Aris Gold Sign Up  Aris Gold’s Marmato project in Colombia. Credit: Aris Gold. Aris Gold (TSX: ARIS; US-OTC: ALLXF) was formed this year from predecessor company Caldas Gold. In November, Caldas announced the upcoming name change, along with an C$85 million subscription recei...

Colombia human rights update February 2021 Also in February, the United Nations released its 2020 human rights report on Colombia. Below is a summary of cases of human rights violations in February 2021.   Colombia’s human rights crisis continues to impact communities in many different parts of the country, with indigenous leaders, environmental activists and trade unionists, along with former combatants in the peace process, among those violently targeted in February. Fighting involving state security forces and different armed groups also impacted heavily on civilians. Also in February,...

Zimbabwe begins vaccination campaign against Covid-19 using Chinese vaccine 1 minute read Harare, Feb 18 (efe-epa).- Zimbabwe began on Thursday its Covid-19 inoculation campaign with a vaccine developed in China, becoming the eighth country in Africa to launch an immunization drive to combat the coronavirus. Constantino Chiwenga, the country’s vice-president, was the first person to receive the shot during a ceremony organized at Wilkins Hospital, three days after a plane from Air Zimbabwe brought 200,000 Sinopharm vaccines from China. “Today marks the launch of the vaccination program ...

Colombia human rights update January 2021 Forced displacement also occurred, with town councillors, journalists and indigenous activists continuing to be targeted.   The opening weeks of 2021 were the most violent start to a year since Colombia’s peace agreement was signed in 2016. Having registered over 90 massacres and over 300 social activists killed in the previous twelve months, according to national human rights organisations, the first month of the new year saw at least sevent massacres, 17 killings of social activists and five FARC former combatants killed. Forced displacement also...

Massacres and Killings of Social Leaders Impede Peace in Colombia Format by Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli In recent months, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) has received various requests for the protection of social leaders and ethnic minorities, as well as human rights cases requiring intervention. These have surpassed our staff’s ability to act on all of them in our usual, expeditious manner. As such, we are constrained to publishing alerts in a parceled manner. Below are the first set of cases we’ve received. We cannot stress enough that international actions are required to sto...