On August 9, 2001, in Colombia, riot police and private security forces from the Cerrej--n coal mine -- one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world -- surrounded the remote community of Tabaco. They then dragged residents out of their homes and bulldozed what remained of that town's structures. There was, after all, coal under the town and the mine's owner, Exxon Mobil Corporation, wanted to access it[...]
