The annual congress of the Colombian Mining Association was held on the 9th and 10th of May 2019. This organisation represents the large mining companies that control the mining titles, and therefore mineral exploration and exploitation in the country. Among them are the biggest producers such as Mineros S.A. and Gran Colombia Gold. These companies produce 8.7 tons per year, one fifth of the 41 tons that were produced in 2017. The proposals of the companies and the promises of President Iván Duque reveal a risk of deepening the exclusionary policies towards small-scale miners while extending the privileged treatment reserved for the large enterprises.
On the 29th and 30th of April 2019, five European civil society organisations, organised a workshop in Brussels under the title “The EU regulation on responsible mineral sourcing and its accompanying measures: views from civil society from producing countries”. The key result of the workshop was the elaboration of recommendations to EU policy makers drafted jointly with civil society organisations from mineral producing countries and their European counterparts.
Este documento tiene por objeto hacer una descripción y análisis de las estrategias de protección y las dinámicas de transformación que se presentan hoy en día en la Amazonia colombiana. Está dividido en cuatro secciones. La primera sección presenta un contexto general de la Amazonia colombiana; la segunda hace una descripción y análisis de los referentes de política pública y de las estrategias de protección para la región; la tercera sección analiza las dinámicas de transformación en el marco del proceso de posconflicto que vive el país; el informe termina con un sucinto análisis de las implicaciones de los últimos planes de desarrollo nacionales sobre la Amazonia.
