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War for Gold: Colombia’s Sur de Bolívar trapped as ELN expands to Pacific | The City Paper Bogotá

In the gold-laced folds of a mountain range that cuts through Sur de Bolívar, more than 7,500 people have been locked inside their homes for nearly three weeks, caught between two warring factions in a deepening humanitarian crisis. With schools closed and food growing scarce, the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla has turned the mountainous San Lucas range into a battlefield for a chilling form of warfare: drones. Over 18 days of clashes …
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The armed strike that the ELN has been holding for 13 days in Santa Rosa del Sur, Bolívar, forced dozens of inhabitants of the mining areas to move to the municipal capital. The affected families walk for hours to the Canelos district, burdened by lack of work and food after the closure of roads. Confined miners report that entire families leave the mountain ranges in search of refuge in the municipality. The situation forces them to walk approx…

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The City Paper Bogotá broke the news in on Tuesday, August 5, 2025.
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