Colombia's vote may reshape the Amazon's future as political winds shift across Latin America
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FILE - A boat, with gasoline to be taken to illegal mining machinery, maneuvers past an area that was mined and is being reforested by Asociacion Nuestra Casa Comun, or Our Community House Association, near Paimado, Colombia, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)FILE - Presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella of the opposition Defenders of the Motherland movement speaks to supporters from inside a bulletproof booth at a celebration rally after runoff election results showed him leading in Barranquilla, Colombia, June 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)FILE - An illegal mining camp is visible from a Brazil Environmental Agency helicopter during an operation to try to contain illegal mining in Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)FILE - A group of Indigenous women from across Ecuador's Amazon walk near a support beam for an oil pipeline as they travel through the region on what activists call a toxitour visiting oil fields in Sucumbios, Ecuador, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)The Javae River and the Boa Esperanca village of the Javae Indigenous group are visible on Bananal Island in Formoso do Araguaia, Tocantins state, Brazil, Friday, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)FILE - Men fish in the low levels of the Amazon River, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)
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FILE - A boat, with gasoline to be taken to illegal mining machinery, maneuvers past an area that was mined and is being reforested by Asociacion Nuestra Casa Comun, or Our Community House Association, near Paimado, Colombia, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)