Ten years in the making, this investigation chronicles the devastating impact of the savage capitalism that runs wild in the forgotten corners of the global economy.
The series follows reporters James Bargent and Mat Charles as they head to the Colombian town of Segovia, in search othe blood gold that contaminates global supply chains and ends up in the hands of everyday consumers. But what they find there challenges conventional understandings of conflict minerals as they expose how it is not only warlords and gangsters that grow rich from dirty gold, but also global political and business elites.
Listen to the first two episodes now, available at insightcrime.org and on all major podcasting platforms. New episodes will be released weekly.
