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Goldman Prize Honors Young Activist for Stopping Fracking in Colombia's Magdalena River Towns

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Yuvelis Morales Blanco, 24, mobilized her Afro-Colombian community in Puerto Wilches to prevent commercial fracking by Colombia's state-owned oil company Ecopetrol. In August 2024, the Colombian Constitutional Court confirmed the projects violated the community's right to free, prior, and informed consent, with the company having already suspended contracts in 2022.

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The court ruling confirmed past violations rather than being a new legal decision; the projects themselves were suspended in 2022.

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