NYTIMES (Justin Scheck) - U.S. Was Asked to Blacklist Colombian Cartel Gold. It Was Also Buying It.
The request for sanctions, from Colombia’s defense minister, shows failures at both ends of the supply chain for illegal gold.
NYTIMES (Justin Scheck) - Canada Says Its Gold Is Traceable and Clean. So We Traced It.
We ended up in a Colombian mine controlled by a drug cartel.
NYTIMES (Federico Rios) - What Happened After The New York Times Found a Cartel Mine on a Colombian Military Base
Officers denied that an illegal, large-scale gold operation was underway within earshot of their posts. But we had seen it with our own eyes.