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El Cerrejon is the largest open-pit coal mine in Latin America, stretching over 69,000 hectares across a harsh landscape that is also home to the semi-nomadic Wayuu tribe, who live in huts and survive off ranching, small-scale agriculture, and fishing - Copyright AFP JOAQUIN SARMIENTOAlejandro RINCONColombia’s massive El Cerrejon coal mine has landed in the […]
Colombia's massive El Cerrejon coal mine has landed in the crosshairs of President Gustavo Petro, who has blamed the open-pit operation for plunging the local Indigenous community into a severe water crisis.
An imminent Colombian government tally of the nation's oil reserves is expected to show a decline.
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 […]
For a third year in a row, Nicaraguans have pushed to release political prisoners, now estimated at about 100 people.