Puerto TejadaCorpses and mining waste choked the Cauca, now a war victim.
Colombia’s president, Abelardo de la Espriella, opposes the tribunal that granted the status.
The Special Jurisdiction for Peace, created by the 2016 peace agreement, recognised the river in 2023 alongside hundreds of thousands of people.
José Luis Rengifo, a Puerto Tejada community leader, is one of many fearing for the programme’s future.
How each outlet framed it
- Dialogue Earth leans critical
- foregrounds ecological and spiritual devastation—dead bodies in river, mining pollution, lost traditional practices—as conflict legacy
Sources: Dialogue Earth