"Crossed voices over El Roble’s new contract" – April 24, 2025 –

...The signing of a new mining exploitation contract in El Carmen de Atrato, Chocó, has triggered a wave of tensions among the local community, social organizations, the company Miner S.A., and the National Mining Agency. Although the process is moving forward as a requirement of an international court ruling, Indigenous, peasant, and environmental leaders report a lack of genuine participation, environmental risks, and potential impacts on ethnic and territorial rights... El Carmen de Atrato, with its lush biodiversity and resilient people, deserves a fairer future—one in which mining is not synonymous with imposition, but rather with agreements built from the ground up, with respect for the territory and for those who inhabit it...