is the president of the local small scale miners association. with the for all that used to be cocoa plantations. and the government has eradicated all the coke on the region. each day dozens of mules amble up and down these paths loaded up with cans of cyanide like mercury it's used to extract the gold from the or. we're in the heart of a rich gold bearing region. the mines are artisanal the techniques and c'est the gold reserves have hardly been tapped. the big companies rarely venture out here but they already hold all the mining permits. and all this land is already tenured by the company's compass you know whenever a small farmer goes to request a mining permit he's told that the land has already been allocated that someone has requested it before and. in this way the small scale miners are considered illegal by the colombian government they live under fark rule most of the time the guerrilla fighters are invisible but they come here regularly to collect their war tax. in order to work you have to pay the guerillas. everyone pays the entire