Colombia News » Vaupes News Colombia » Vaupes » Finance: Bajo Cauca and Vaupés: Colombia’s Child Recruitment Hotspots
News channel or source: https://insightcrime.org/investigations/bajo-cauca-and-vaupes-colombias-child-recruitment-hotspots/
Published on: Thursday 01 April 2021
As in the darkest days of Colombia’s civil conflict, armed groups across the country continue to enlist and exploit teenagers. In this, the first of a three-part investigation by InSight Crime about ...
News Colombia » Vaupes » Finance: Vaupés River contamination identified near rapidly expanding Amazonian town
News channel or source: https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/vaupes-river-contamination-identified-near-rapidly-expanding-amazonian-town/
Published on: Monday 20 April 2026
Indigenous people who live downstream from a rapidly expanding Amazonian town on the banks of the Vaupés River told Mongabay the river is contaminated by sewage and has made people sick. To verify ...