"...the consultation process took place with both the Embera Karambá as well as the Embera Chamí. No agreement was reached with the Embera Karambá. 2015 was a tense year. From the point of view of the Indigenous groups, the consultation was, in fact, more like an argument, forcing them to accept the mining project, whether they liked it or not. For Edith Lucía, the Karambá governor, even state employees themselves acted, in her words, “not as guarantors of the process,” rather “they were submissive to whatever the company said”, while those who “spoke out a little in favor of the community […] were vetoed and taken off the case, and others were sent [in their place].”
"After the failed consultation process, the mining company continued to hold roundtable meetings with artisanal miners, to which it invited leaders from the Karambá community. The most recent of these meetings took place in May 2022. Edit Ladino, another Karambá Indigenous figure, explained how they attended only as listeners, however, the Karambá are demanding that the Interior Ministry are present at the meetings and that these roundtable meetings do not in any way replace the consultation process.The mining company told the team of journalists behind this report that “the process of prior consultation has in this case already been conducted,” but that this “does not mean that the dialogue with this community has been ended by the company.”“The whole team from our company remains ready to listen to the community and have a dialogue,” it reiterates."
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