(Photo taken from: Elpais.cr) The story of this mining exploration dates back to 1993 when the Canadian mining corporation Placer Dome obtained an exploration license from the Ministry of Environment and Energy. The Crucitas region where the project is located●●●

Death threats against community leader, his family and the union, hacking web sites, stealing computers and records of the hearings of Puerto Gaitan. During the early hours of today, Saturday 20 July, the house of the Brotherhood and Solidarity Network with Colombia (Redher)in Bogotá was attacked. Strangers came into the place and took away computers, sound recorders and cameras used in theorganization of the pre-hearing of the Ethical and Political Judgement  of Pacific Rubiales; and of the delegation from Canada-the●●●