Colombians Waking Up To Reality The inhabitants of Cajamarca (Tolima) agree today, that the worst business the municipality did on March 26 of last year (2017), was to deny all mining (Anglo Ashanti La Colosa project) activity in the region.
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From that date began the headache for the inhabitants, located one hour from the capital of the department Ibague, since 334 days after the referendum, the municipal coffers are practically empty and in the red.
He asserted that the people who promoted the No, and who offered programs with NGOs to strengthen agricultural activity in the region as a productive alternative, "disappeared." "They talked about large investments for the field and to this day they have not been seen, nor the money they promised," he said.
Today Cajamarca looks like a ghost town, affirm some of the citizens that still inhabit it, and that with candlelight in hand they only pray for the mining activity to return, in addition to the countrymen that went out to escape in Ibague, Armenia and Bogota.
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