When the multinationals moved out at the beginning of the eighties, illegal miners from other parts of Colombia moved in, handing out another blow to the local Afro-population of Chocó. Soil and rivers were contaminated with mercury and the region was robbed of tax revenues as the gold was taken away and sold elsewhere. The Political Constitution of 1991 was the beginning of a new dawn for the Afro-Colombians who had been subjugated for so many generations. Only a few years later would they discover, in a strange twist of fate, that centuries of slavery had in fact provided a gift for them after all: their ancestral knowledge of artisanal mining would be instrumental in their chance for a bet- ter future – together with a little help from new friends.
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