By Prensa Cajar | 6 April 2022 As human rights organisations that support communities affected by mining in La Guajra, Cajar, Cinep and Censat, we publicly condemn the practice of forced evictions being carried out by government bodies in the department’s...
Residents of Tabac standing in the ruins of their houses, October 2001 By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network On 9 August 2001, the residents of the village of Tabaco in La Guajira, Colombia, were violently evicted from their land and their village was...
On 9 August 2001 the Afro-Descendant community of Tabaco was forcibly displaced from their ancestral land to give way to the biggest open cast coal mine in Latin America: Cerrejon. The mine is currently owned by Anglo American, BHP and Glencore, three multinational...
