Edgar Sarmiento

History

Edgar Sarmiento was head of the Resettlement and Real Estate department of the mining company Cerrejón. For the last 25 years, he has lived with his family in the "coal land" town built by the company (owned at the time by Exxon Mobil) for its employees on the site of the coal mine at the end of the 1980s. He retired in March 2015.

Movies

La Buena Vida - The Good Life
La Buena Vida - The Good Life
The village of Tamaquito lies deep in the forests of Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need. But the Wayúu community's way of life is being destroyed by the vast and rapidly growing El Cerrejón coal mine. Determined to save his community from forced resettlement, the leader Jairo Fuentes negotiates with the mine's operators, which soon becomes a fight to survive.