COLOMBIA’S GOLD RUSH IS BREEDING GROUND FOR ORGANISED CRIME
December 1st, 2011
BY NADJA DROST
AMIDST a global gold rush spurred on by historically high prices, Colombia, with vast tracts of unexplored gold deposits, is emerging as a major source of the precious metal.
But Colombia's gold boom is providing the country's numerous illegal armed groups with sundry new ways to finance their wars as well as launder their ill-gotten profits. Nadja Drost reports from Bogotá.
BACKED by a government eager to promote large-scale mining, a torrent of foreign mining companies is sweeping across huge swaths of Colombia. But also driving the mining ...
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