The ELN guerrilla has intensified its offensive in Colombia’s Sur de Bolívar, deploying drones and battling rivals armed groups for control of alluvial gold mines. The region has become a testing ground for aerial terror, forcing some 7,500 to be confined in this dangerous chapter of the internal conflict.
War for Gold: Colombia’s Sur de Bolívar trapped as ELN expands to Pacific
By Richard Emblin
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