Colombia’s Illegal Gold Rush
The success of coca eradication has led the FARC to take up illegal gold mining, producing a huge environmental challenge. It is speculated the FARC now make about $450,000 dollars a week from illegal...
View ArticlePhase II: Unregulated mining and logging create new conflicts and displace...
Logging as well as gold and coltan mining are now what the FARC, the Sinaloa Cartel, the Urabeños, the Rastrojos, and gangs of common delinquents are after. Fighting for control of the territory and...
View Article“Mass” transportation in hamlets devised from old motorcycles and abandoned...
The “motollevo” -- planks of wood dragged by old motorcycles over abandoned railroad tracks -- is considered “mass” transportation in the isolated hamlets of Quinchía in Risaralda department in coffee...
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