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"The history of aggression against the people who live in the Catatumbo, ethnic Indians and Peasants Motilón Bari has been the history of oil exploration and natural resources "

Catatumbo In Colombia, high wealth area where large deposits of oil, coal, biodiversity, the paramilitary strategy was an instrument used by the Colombian State and national, multinational and transnational dynamics of violence in implementing and terror (over 10,000 extrajudicial killings, more than 600 missing, over 100,000 displaced persons, torture, sexual abuse) to strip all of their land to peasants and indigenous people and seize their lands, to leave the areas where we know will come forward and advance the coal mining open pit oil exploration and infrastructure construction for mega oil palm planting. There

in a Natural Park Bi Catatumbo Catatumbo - Bari, the forest reserve of the Serrania de los Motilones two Pueblo Indian reservations of Bari, is an environmentally sensitive area for its rich biodiversity and also over ancestral lands 23 indigenous communities and where more than 200 000 farmers.

exploitation of opencast coal in the region is an activity that generates the most environmental, social and cultural, as it completely destroys the environment and bring him to the communities living there. Unfortunate for the Catatumbo, we could conclude that there was a reserve of coal than that of Cerrejón in Guajira, on which 8 companies want opencast advance, so far known, we can identify two Canadian companies, a Mexican and five others are alleged domestic firms: GEOFISING EU RIO DE ORO MINING COMPANY, THE EMERALD MINING COMPANY, AND MORA MORA MULTIINVERSIONES MINING PROMINORTE, SOPROMIN, COAL FUELS AND MINERALS and PROMEXCO. These companies requested September 21, 2005, the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development subtracting the forest reserve and the municipalities of Tibu Theorem. Requested joint global environmental license for the exploration and mining, to advance exploration, exploitation, beneficiation, processing, transportation and marketing of coal on 26 September 2005. These companies want to impact an area of \u200b\u200bover 25,000 hectares in the municipalities of Convention, Theorem, Tibu and Tarra. Also have violated people's basic rights to participation BARI, the territory, autonomy, ethnic and cultural integrity, because they have not advanced a prior consultation process within the ruling of an environmental license, violating the rights of the peasantry also because they have not made a referendum on the contrary, have advanced seismic activities and exploration in areas of shelter and ancestral lands of Bari, have advanced disinformation campaigns telling the indigenous peasants and many of them have received money to permit the exploitation of coal, and have ignored all the legal framework and national security International Indigenous Peoples and the ruling of the Constitutional Court, Decision T - 880 of 2006 in favor of the Bari tribe.

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