Victory!
Gas Project in U'wa Territory Dismantled

"The U'wa people would like to inform national and international public opinion that the Magallanes gas exploration block has been completely dismantled. Ecopetrol has removed all the machinery that had been found there in a demonstration of respect for our rights as an indigenous people."

What a difference a year can make! In early 2014, Amazon Watch began receiving urgent alerts from Colombia's U'wa people about a new threat to their territory. In a public communiqué dated February 26th 2014, the U'wa Association denounced the Magallanes gas exploration project as "an imminent threat to the physical, social and cultural integrity of the U'wa indigenous people, along with [their] environment and ancestral territory."

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