The government of leftist new President Gustavo Petro in Colombia aims to make La Guajira a "green energy capital of the world," but some locals claim they are being exploited and left behind
In Colombia's far north, wind farm expansion is unsettling the Indigenous Wayuu inhabitants of a semi-desert region earmarked as an El Dorado of renewable energy.
In the far north of Colombia, the construction of wind turbines is sowing discord and concern among Wayuu indigenous communities in this semi-desert region, the new Eldorado of renewable energies.In 2016, the Portuguese EDPR and Italian companies ENEL asked the Jusayu family for permission to build a wind farm and an access road to another park on their small territory in the department of La Guajira. The Jusayu family, goat herders, refused, sparking in return a campaign of harassment that left one dead, several injured and 34 displaced, she accused. Two wind farms have so far sprung up o
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URIBIA (COLOMBIA) - After a grueling jeep trip of almost 24 hours on mostly desert roads, two-year-old Rosalinda arrived at the clinic in Uribia, northern Colombia, just in time.