In the Ovejas river, in the municipality of Suárez, Cauca, Don Efraín has been washing sand with bata for more than thirty years, as his father taught him. He has never used dredges, never touched mercury and has never asked for a mining title, because in his world that activity was always called simply to work. Until a... The entry Column of opinion Legal Barequeo, illegal mining: the line that no one has explained to the miner was first publis…
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In the Ovejas river, in the municipality of Suárez, Cauca, Don Efraín has been washing sand with bata for more than thirty years, as his father taught him. He has never used dredges, never touched mercury and has never asked for a mining title, because in his world that activity was always called simply to work. Until a... The entry Column of opinion Legal Barequeo, illegal mining: the line that no one has explained to the miner was first publis…