In November 2000, a consortium representing Glencore, BHP and AngloAmerican buys a 50% stake in the Cerrejón mine, a coal mine in La Guajira, northern Colombia.1 The consortium, which would go on to take full control of the project in 2002, undertakes multiple large...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 Press Release from the Committee of Defenders of the Territory of the Indigenous Reservation of Provincial and Jose Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective. (Read original Spanish text here.) Cerrejon Coal Mine lies and act in a...
The Cerrejon mine is the largest opencast coal mine in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. It is owned by three mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange – Anglo American, BHP and Glencore. Workers at the mine have been on strike since...
On 3 August 2020, LMN and member groups Colombia Solidarity Campaign and TerraJusta, together with allies in Europe and North America, wrote to Cerrejon Coal and its multinational owners Anglo American, BHP and Glencore, to express our support for mine workers’...
Statement from Sintracarbón (National Union of Workers in the Coal Industry in Colombia) 18 July, 2020 We Say NO to the Shift of Death – Declaration of the Board of Directors of Sintracarbón Yesterday, 17 July, during the meeting of the Board of Directors of our...
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