Amid global crackdowns on cocaine trafficking, Colombia’s cartels and criminal groups have shifted to a new top moneymaker: gold. But as the government tackles illegal mining, artisanal workers whose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amid global crackdowns on cocaine trafficking, Colombia’s cartels and criminal groups have shifted to a new top moneymaker: gold.

This gold comes from a Colombian drug cartel mine. It should never end up at the U.S. Mint. But it does. The mine poisons the workers. The gold underwrites terrorism and cocaine trafficking. But how ...

For three years, six Passaic County residents used more than 1,000 checks to launder more than $27 million in drug money paid to drug cartels in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, authorities said.

We ended up in a Colombian mine controlled by a drug cartel. By Justin Scheck In the shadowy global gold industry, where terrorists, drug dealers and dictators launder illegally mined gold into the ...

Amid global crackdowns on cocaine trafficking, Colombia's cartels and criminal groups have shifted to a new top moneymaker: gold. But as the government tackles illegal mining, artisanal workers whose ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been designated a “priority target” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as federal prosecutors in New York probe his alleged ties to drug ...