Colombia: ‘Where there is gold, there are guns’
As I arrived in Segovia, a small city in Colombia’s Antioquia province, I was startled to see soldiers fully geared for combat — machine guns poised, helmets strapped tight, field …
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Colombian gold-mining village fights to stay put
The preparations for the evening Mass on Jan. 15 in the Church of Santa Barbara in Marmato, a mountainside mining village in central Colombia, were ordinary in every detail but …