Landscape Architecture, UCL77 Wicklow Street, London WC1X 9JY Join us to hear perspectives from Peruvian land defenders living near a copper mine and from members of the Red Muqui network. We are also presenting the exhibition – Cartographies of extraction and...
The Wayuu community of Tamaquito II was forced to relocate by the expansion of the coal open-cast Cerrejón mine owned by Glencore. Since their relocation, the community has been trying to recover its autonomy and to keep alive its cultural wisdom and traditions. In...
This is an open letter to Glencore regarding the forced-resettled African-descent community of Roche in La Guajira. After their forced relocation, they lost their rural livelihood based on agriculture and cattle ranching and the consequences of that remain...
Photo: Andrés López. The African-descent community of Tabaco in La Guajira, Colombia, was brutally displaced from its town in 2001 to give way to the Cerrejón mine, the biggest coal open-cast mine in Latin America, owned by Glencore, the Swiss company. In 2001, the...
Twenty-three years after the violent displacement from Tabaco, there is no collective relocation nor collective and individual reparations for members of the Tabaco community. The displacement of the African-descent community of Tabaco in La Guajira, Colombia, gave...
