Strikes, protests and kidnaps: tough times for Colombian mining

As foreign mining companies in Colombia become bedevilled by increasingly widespread extortion, kidnapping of workers, and growing union and community demands, only the very bold are continuing to pump money into the country’s gold sector – the very bold and, of course, Colombia’s illegal groups, for whom gold in many regions is becoming more lucrative than cocaine.
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/07/26/strikes-protests-and-kidnaps-tough-times-for-colombian-mining/?#axzz2aFWfYs3J