Approximately 100 kilometers north of the city of Bogotá, capital of Colombia, is the most productive region in emeralds of this part of the planet: the town of Muzo in the department of Boyacá.
This is a place that has seen throughout its history many confrontations and wars for the control of the territory and the production of these precious stones.
The times of violence in this area seem to have ended, thanks to several agreements signed between opponents more than 20 years ago.
Now many men, women and even children, scrape the floor with the tools they have, even with their hands, to try to tear off the spoils left by the big emerald companies, which now control the business, some stone that changes their fortune .