Tag Archives: Mining
LIST OF DEMANDS: MANDATES FOR GOOD LIVING, DEMOCRACY, AND PEACE
(Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN volunteer translator) 1. Land, territories held collectively, and land ownership system The country needs a … Read More »
CSN Newsletter December 2013
Click here for the December 2013 Colombia Support Network Newsletter This Newsletter contains several interesting reports on current developments in … Read More »
THE PEOPLE MUST BE HEARD
For several weeks Colombia’s countryside has been alive with protests of campesinos, union members, small-scale (artisan) miners and others who … Read More »
A MESSAGE ABOUT RECENT EVENTS IN THE MINER’S STRIKE IN MARMATO, COLOMBIA
(Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN volunteer translator) Marmato, August 4, 2013 After nineteen days of protests all over the country … Read More »
Letter from Small-Scale Miners to the People of Colombia
LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF COLOMBIA DEFENDING NATIONAL SMALL-SCALE MINING WILL SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM LARGE-SCALE FOREIGN … Read More »
The Miners’ Strike Starts on Wednesday
(Translated by Eunice Gibson, CSN volunteer translator) Last month the miners of Caldas and Risaralda were stood up in Irra. … Read More »
It is unheard of that the Ministry of the Interior should violate the law to facilitate El Cerrejón’s ability to change the course of the Ranchería River
Author: Jorge Enrique Robledo Translated by: Steve Cagan Bogotá, June 12, 2012 Doctor FEDERICO RENJIFO VÉLEZ Minister of the … Read More »
Expert questions the future of Colombian Agriculture
Translated by: Elaine Fuller, a CSN volunteer translator Edited by: Ashley Miller, a CSN volunteer editor and Nora Walker, a … Read More »
Colombia: A Dispossessed and Imprisoned Country
Translated by: Leo Torres, a CSN volunteer translator Edited by: Bethany Canales, a CSN volunteer editor and Nora Walker, a … Read More »
Mining Reserve Areas: Strategic Importance and General Confusion
Translated by Steve Cagan Author: María del Pilar Pardo Fajardo This year the reserve areas will have gone from 21 … Read More »