{"id":828,"date":"2012-12-13T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T16:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2012-12-13T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T16:21:26","slug":"colombian-rebels-extort-gold-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Colombian rebels extort gold miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cecilia Jamasmie<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>MINING.com\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-829\" title=\"farc160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/farc160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"148\" \/>The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and a new generation of drug gangs (known locally as \u201cBacrims\u201d) are increasingly turning to gold mining to finance their terrorist acts, reveals a report released Thursday by political risk firm Exclusive Analysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFARC and drug gang involvement in gold mining increases extortion and property damage risks, particularly in Antioquia and Putumayo,\u201d said Carlos Caicedo, head of Latin America forecasting.<\/p>\n<p>The expert says that funds coming from mining operations are now the main source of income for the revolutionary groups. In some provinces, he added, it has overtaken drug trafficking, especially in areas controlled by the FARC.<\/p>\n<p>Caicedo said the lack of security force presence in some of Colombia\u2019s remote areas is fuelling confrontations between the FARC and Bacrims, who often \u201cfight each other for the right to extort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/colombian-armed-rebels-tighten-control-over-gold-mining-99114\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article . . .<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and a new generation of drug gangs (known locally as \u201cBacrims\u201d) are increasingly turning to gold mining to finance their terrorist acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-colombia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}