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Gustavo Petro’s government has promised to eschew extractivism, but it’s not all straightforward. “For the first time ever, there is a government that is against fracking,” says Amarilys Llanos Navarro. An activist and lawyer with the Cesar Without Fracking and Gas Movement, an anti-extractivist movement in Colombia’s northern department of Cesar, is referring to Gustavo […]
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian lawmakers, the environment minister and environmental campaigners on Wednesday proposed a bill to congr.
Colombia’s leftist firebrand presidential candidate Gustavo Petro is too close in recent polls for the comfort of oil companies and miners who worry that his