Colombia: Land, Oil, Mining, Drug Crops: Colombian Amazon Tough for Small Farmers

Oct 9, 2018 | Barbara J. Fraser, Catholic News Service
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Companies that once avoided Colombia’s Amazonian region because of the hazards of war are now jockeying to profit from timber, oil, minerals and palm oil plantations. That places small farmers and the Catholic Church workers who help them on a dangerous frontier marked by conflicts over land, oil, mining and drug crops.