Colombia: Colombian Campesino Land Defender Assassinated

Nov 19, 2016 | teleSUR
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Erley Monroy Fierro, director of Ascal-G, one of the most important campesino associations in the eastern amazonian region, was assassinated on Friday. Since discovering that the government had authorized oil drilling in the region, Monroy Fierro had focused protest efforts on trying to protect the local environment and highlight the damage caused by the oil projects.