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...
Join us for a Spanish/English webinar on Friday 16 August, 9am Colombia, 10am EST, 3pm BST, 4pm CET On 9 August, 2001, the African-descent community of Tabaco in La Guajira, Colombia were brutally evicted, and their homes demolished by hundreds of armed police and...
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,...
Rosa María Mateus from CAJAR, Stephan Suhner from ASK, Diana Salazar from Colombia Solidarity Campaign, Samuel Arregoces from Tabaco, Javiera Martinez from London Mining Network, Claudia Blanco and Daniel Morón from Sintracarbon On Thursday, 28 April, the Glencore...
