Canada in Colombia: Staking out Claims on Gold

Staking Out Claims on Gold Presentation & Discussion with CPT Volunteer and Trent Alumnus Stewart Vriesinga. Stewart will illustrate the campesino farmer and artisanal miners' struggles with mining companies and the Colombian and Canadian Governments. Despite death threats, displacement, massacres, extrajudicial killings, military and paramilitary armed intimidation, Free Trade Agreements, and new legislation, the local population is resisting every step of the way! Free event with donations accepted for Christian Peace Makers.