Colombia's government is persecuting small-scale, informal miners "as if they were criminals, to clear their territories for the multinational mining companies," said opposition Senator Jorge Robledo.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos last week said that illegal mining is "a cancer that must be removed," a statement which the leftist Polo Democratico senator calls "irresponsible."
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