Colombian government and ELN reach first agreement in peace process : Peoples Dispatch
The agreement allows the safe return of the Embera Indigenous people to their lands in the Murindó municipality in the Antioquia department of Colombia
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The agreement allows the safe return of the Embera Indigenous people to their lands in the Murindó municipality in the Antioquia department of Colombia
Post date: Wed, 04/07/2021 - 9:13am After Peruvian authorities shut down one of the country’s largest illegal gold mines, La Pampa, earlier this year, informal and illegal miners have been encroaching on new areas, like this one in southeastern part of the country. This newly opened gold field was, until recently, Amazon forest. (Photo/Jim Wyss/Miami Herald/TNS) Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the book ‘Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring’ by Miami Herald journalists Jay Weaver and Nicholas Nehamas and former Herald journalists Jim Wyss...