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Frustration around the Latest Ruling in the Cases of Violence towards Environmental Leaders

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Frustration around the Latest Ruling in the Cases of Violence towards Environmental Leaders Wednesday April 11, six members of the 18th Street gang were sentenced to between 30 and 145 years in jail for a wave of murders committed in 2009 in the town of Trinidad, Cabañas that included the assass...

Ruling Rejected in the Case of Murdered Environmentalists

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Ruling Rejected in the Case of Murdered Environmentalists   Environmental Committee of Cabañas rejects the ruling in the case of murders of environmentalists Zoraya Urbina, Diario Co Latino Tuesday April 17, 2012 Translation by Jan Morrill Original Spanish Version The legal process that l...

Crime in Cabañas

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The Crime in Cabañas Originally Published in the print newspaper Voces February 22, 2010 Translated by Jan Morrill Between August and December 2009 at least five people were assassinated in events related, in one way or another, with mineral mining extraction in the department of Cabañas....

Threats and Attacks to Religious Leader in Cabañas

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Threats and Attacks to Religious Leader in Cabañas January 2012 A new series of threats towards environmentalists have disrupted the uneasy calm that had settled over Cabañas after almost eight months without violence or intimidation.  On Friday January 20th, around noon, Father Neftalí Ruiz, ...

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