‘I was kidnapped, chained and blindfolded. They’d kill me if I went back to Colombia’
by Ed Vulliamy from on (#RG7C)
Trade union activist Gilberto Torres talks about his country's oil wars
and why he is bringing a case against BP
and why he is bringing a case against BP
While peace edges closer in Colombia - ending a 40-year war between the government and leftwing Farc guerillas - so another war rages unabated: the appalling violence that surrounds mining and drilling for oil.
A remarkable survivor of these atrocities visited Britain this month for a tour of public meetings about his kidnap and torture, warning of the ravages of "extraction industries" in Latin America, and to consult his lawyers over a suit he has filed against BP for its alleged connections to the kidnappers.
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