Colombia Environmental Agency Fines Malaria Experimenters $281,000 for Mistreating Animals

The Colombian environmental agency Corporación Autónoma Regional del Valle del Cauca fined experimenters Sócrates Herrera and Myriam Arévalo—the owners of the Colombian organizations at the center of PETA’s 18-month investigation—more than $281,000 after it found them responsible for lacking the required permits to capture, confine, and experiment on monkeys. The agency’s ruling also established that “animal mistreatment” had been committed and that the monkeys who were rescued from the decrepit facility will not go back to their abusers.