On May 20, 2025, the United Kingdom announced it would suspend its Free Trade Agreement with Israel and negotiate a new one. The next day, the President of Colombia praised the British people, writing: “I congratulate the UK for its dignified decision against genocide. Now Colombia invites all of Latin America to denounce free trade agreements with Israel. One does not trade with genocidal states.” However, Colombia has not completely ended its commercial relations with Israel, despite President Petro’s statements a year ago announcing the severance of relations with the Zionist government led by the genocidal Benjamin Netanyahu, and a halt to all thermal coal exports to Israel due to the Palestinian genocide.
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Resisting in the Shadow of Coal
By: Marcela Zuluaga C.
The coal mining activity in the Colombian Caribbean not only affects the health of its neighbors but has also displaced entire communities, leaving a path of dispossession and resistance.
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Glencore: Swallowing the Tropical Forest in Colombia
Research: Joanna Zapata, Marcela Zuluaga, and Omar Vera
Audiovisuals: Iván Castaño
Drone footage: Plinio BarrazaThe environmental footprint that Glencore has left in northern Colombia is evident. Vast expanses of tropical forests in the departments of Cesar and La Guajira, where the Swiss company operates open-pit coal mines, have accumulated four decades of deforestation and soil damage that may never be repaired.
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