The people of Río Viejo are giving their lives for water and land. In this hamlet in the Bajo Cauca region of Antioquia, men, women and children have lived for years in brick houses, some of them unplastered, built on dirt roads and next to banana plantations, digging the land to find water and build wells, especially in times of severe drought, but also to plant those plants that are invincible to the mercury feared in this area of the northwest of the country due to illegal mining.
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