Colombia: In Colombia, a Losing Battle to Keep a Dump off Native Lands

Mar 15, 2018 | Camila Taborda, Worldcrunch
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For more than a decade,  locals have done everything in their power to stop the project, demanding, among other things, that the Interior Ministry consult them first before moving forward with the dumb. The efforts did, finally, halt the $730,000 project, but only temporarily, and not until after it was approved by the Guajira department's environmental authority, the CORPOGUAJIRA.