Video: Colombia’s black-market Coltan tied to drug traffickers, paramilitaries

By Ignacio Gómez

March 14, 2012

In this report for Colombia’s Noticias Uno, ICIJ reporter Ignacio Gómez investigates the growing illicit trade in strategic coltan mineral.

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