Colombia
From the gold in our jewelry to the shrimp at our favorite restaurant and the minerals within our electronics, the true cost of production—both social and environmental—too often remains hidden.
Colombia's gold rush pits local subsistence miners against large corporate interests, criminal gangs and the police.
Small-scale miners in Colombia are fighting to protect their lands from large corporations looking to cash in on the country's gold rush.
What role will Colombia's new mining and energy minister, Mauricio Cardenas, play in defining Colombia's future as a competitor in the global energy market?
The killing of a Colombian priest who spoke out against a gold mining project by a Canadian company is spreading fear and suspicion in the community.
Despite death threats and nine suspicious murders last year, the Afro-Colombians of La Toma refuse to hand over ancestral mining rights to multinational corporations.
A Colombian miner makes his first trip underground six weeks after a mining accident killed his brother and four others. Despite outcry from politicians, conditions in the mines have not improved.
Colombia's recent surge in mining activity is threatening some of the country's most fragile eco-systems.
A small community of gold miners in the Colombian jungle is fighting to turn a toxic industry into a green one.
Carlino Ararat and other locals fear losing their mining rights and source of livelihood as the Colombian government gives mining exploration titles to large foreign and national mining companies.
Colombia's small-scale traditional miners are fighting for their piece of the recent gold mining boom as large multinational companies have picked up most of the country's exploration rights.
Guardia Indigena, a pacifist force, protects land populated by the Nasa from armed groups and illegal miners. In March 2011, they successfully headed off bulldozers in Las Canoas reserve.
Colombian coal miners are digging harder and deeper than ever before to bring supply energy to the world, but it is not without personal costs.