the mines are artisanal the techniques and sesto the gold reserves have hardly been tapped. the big companies rarely venture out here but they already hold all the mining permits. the theater with them 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 famous both in this way the small scale miners who 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 region of the moco and southern. this is the infernal trap the small scale miners were caught had subjected to paying extortion money as a result they're accused of supporting the guerrillas. it's an injustice. if we didn't pay the fox they close down the mine they don't get us work and they kick us out of the region. for decades there were just these galleries