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Quienes certifican que el oro es limpio rara vez visitan las minas en países como Colombia
Foto de referencia de una mina legal de Oro en Brasil. Quienes certifican que el oro es limpio rara vez visitan las minas en países como Colombia Tiempo de lectura ¡Ahorra tiempo y mantente informado con El Espectador! Lee nuestros resúmenes para informarte con los puntos clave de cada noticia. Te contamos lo que debes saber en pocos segundos. Descubre lo más relevante Lee lo esencial de esta nota con nuestra herramienta exclusiva de resumen con IA.
Quienes certifican que el oro es limpio rara vez visitan las minas
La asociación que funciona como regulador de la industria ha permitido el ingreso de oro extraído en condiciones de abuso, según una investigación del Times. En el último año, he visto a niños pequeños trabajando en minas de oro. He conocido a mineros que le pagan a un cartel de la droga por el derecho a excavar, y he visto a un niño beber de la tubería de aguas residuales de una mina subterránea. Conocí a trabajadores en Colombia cuyas manos tiemblan por la intoxicación con mercurio.
Quienes certifican que el oro es limpio rara vez visitan las minas
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Quienes certifican que el oro es limpio rara vez visitan las minas La asociación que funciona como regulador de la industria ha permitido el ingreso de oro extraído en condiciones de abuso, según una investigación del Times. Compartir artículo completo No es difícil encontrar abusos laborales y criminalidad en las minas de oro sin licencia del mundo.
To Find Criminals and Child Exploitation in Gold Mines, We Just Had to Look Layers of people certify that gold is free from rights abuses and criminality. Nobody makes them leave their desks. Labor abuses and criminality are not hard to find in the world’s unlicensed gold mines. Assuming someone visits.Credit...Lynsey Addario for The New York Times Oct. 19, 2026Updated 6:59 a.m. ET In the past year, I’ve seen toddlers working in gold mines.
To Find Criminals and Child Exploitation in Gold Mines, We Just Had to Look
To Find Criminals and Child Exploitation in Gold Mines, We Just Had to Look Layers of people certify that gold is free from rights abuses and criminality. Nobody makes them leave their desks. Labor abuses and criminality are not hard to find in the world’s unlicensed gold mines. Assuming someone visits.Credit...Lynsey Addario for The New York Times Oct. 19, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET In the past year, I’ve seen toddlers working in gold mines.
The Coverup: How a Trillion-Dollar Industry Launders Illegal Gold
The Coverup: How a Trillion-Dollar Industry Launders Illegal Gold In an industry riddled with abuse, the world’s banks and governments rely on one entity to keep gangsters, warlords and human rights violators from selling gold into the mainstream market.
Colombia pidió a EE. UU. sancionar su oro ilegal, pero Washington lo compraba
La solicitud de sanciones, realizada por el ministro de Defensa de Colombia, muestra fallos en ambos extremos de la cadena de suministro de oro ilegal. Sigue a en Discover: los temas que te gustan, directo y al instante. Pedro Sánchez, en el centro, ministro de Defensa de Colombia, visitando una explotación minera ilegal en una base militar y sus alrededores el mes pasado.
Colombia pidió a EE. UU. sancionar su oro ilegal. Washington lo compraba
La solicitud de sanciones, realizada por el ministro de Defensa de Colombia, muestra fallos en ambos extremos de la cadena de suministro de oro ilegal. A principios de este año, el ministro de Defensa de Colombia se acercó al gobierno de Donald Trump con una solicitud: ¿Podría el gobierno estadounidense imponer sanciones económicas a la industria del oro ilegal en Colombia?
U.S. Was Asked to Blacklist Colombian Cartel Gold. It Was Also Buying It.
U.S. Was Asked to Blacklist Colombian Cartel Gold. It Was Also Buying It. The request for sanctions, from Colombia’s defense minister, shows failures at both ends of the supply chain for illegal gold. Pedro Sánchez, center, Colombia’s defense minister, visiting an illegal mining operation in and around a military base last month.Credit...Federico Rios for The New York Times Justin Scheck spent months tracking illicit gold from Colombian mines to the U.S. Mint.
Colombia pidió a EE. UU. sancionar su oro ilegal. Washington lo compraba
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Colombia pidió a EE. UU. sancionar su oro ilegal. Washington lo compraba La solicitud de sanciones, realizada por el ministro de Defensa de Colombia, muestra fallos en ambos extremos de la cadena de suministro de oro ilegal.
U.S. Was Asked to Blacklist Colombian Cartel Gold. It Was Also Buying It.
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La Casa de la Moneda de EE.UU. compra oro a un cártel de la droga y lo vende como si fuera “estadounidense”
CAUCASIA, Colombia — Cada año, la Casa de Moneda de los Estados Unidos vende más de 1.000 millones de dólares en monedas de oro de inversión. Cada una está sellada con un ícono como el águila calva, que significa la garantía del gobierno, exigida por ley, de que el oro es 100% estadounidense. "Sostener una moneda o medalla producida por la Casa de Moneda es conectar con los principios fundacionales de nuestra nación", declara la institución.
U.S. Mint’s Gold Program Is a Longtime Mess. Ron Paul Saw That Coming.
U.S. Mint’s Gold Program Is a Longtime Mess. Ron Paul Saw That Coming. And he’s basically fine with it. Ron Paul, then a Texas congressman for the Republican Party, in 1983.Credit...CQ Roll Call, via Getty Images Justin Scheck reported from a Colombian drug cartel mine. Then he reviewed decades of Congressional records on the U.S. Mint.
U.S. Mint's Gold Program Is a Longtime Mess. Ron Paul Saw That Coming.
Long before he became a hero of the Republican Party's libertarian wing, Ron Paul was a little-known member of Congress from Texas with a fringe idea: He wanted to re-tether the dollar to gold. In 1981, Paul saw a chance to take what he called a "first step." He joined a new federal gold commission and proposed that the U.S. Mint start making and selling gold coins. That, it turned out, was the right idea for the political moment.
U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’
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Cómo rastreamos el oro del gobierno de EE. UU. hasta un cartel de Colombia
Times Insider explica quiénes somos y qué hacemos, y ofrece una mirada entre bastidores sobre cómo se elabora nuestro periodismo. Hace casi tres años, me obsesioné con el oro. Llevaba dos décadas observando cómo se disparaba su precio. En diciembre de 2023, el oro costaba unos exorbitantes 2000 dólares la onza, un precio inflado por el nerviosismo de los inversores ricos y los gobiernos.
Canadá afirma que su oro es rastreable y limpio. Así que lo verificamos
En la oscura industria mundial del oro, donde terroristas, narcotraficantes y dictadores blanquean oro extraído ilegalmente para introducirlo en el mercado general, un importante proveedor afirma que los compradores pueden contar con que su producto es limpio y de origen ético. La Real Casa de la Moneda de Canadá afirma que puede rastrear todo su oro hasta sus orígenes, con tecnologías de vanguardia que incluyen un software similar al Bitcóin que denomina Bullion Genesis.
Canada Says Its Gold Is Traceable and Clean. So We Traced It.
In the shadowy global gold industry, where terrorists, drug dealers and dictators launder illegally mined gold into the mainstream market, one major supplier says buyers can count on its product to be clean and ethically sourced. The Royal Canadian Mint says it can trace all of its gold back to its origins, with cutting-edge technologies including a Bitcoin-like software it calls Bullion Genesis.
Canada Is a World Leader on Clean Gold, if You Don’t Look Too Closely
In the shadowy global gold industry, where terrorists, drug dealers and dictators launder illegally mined gold into the mainstream market, one major supplier says buyers can count on its product to be clean and ethically sourced. The Royal Canadian Mint says it can trace all of its gold back to its origins, with cutting-edge technologies including a Bitcoin-like software it calls Bullion Genesis.
U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’
(Times Investigation) CAUCASIA, Colombia — Every year, the United States Mint sells more than $1 billion of investment-grade gold coins. Each is stamped with an icon like the bald eagle, signifying the government’s guarantee, required by law, that the gold is 100% American. “To hold a coin or medal produced by the Mint is to connect to the founding principles of our nation,” the Mint declares.
Canada Says Its Gold Is Traceable and Clean. So We Traced It.
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U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as 'American'
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How We Traced U.S. Government Gold to a Drug Cartel
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How Drug Cartel Gold Ends Up at the U.S. Mint
new video loaded: How Drug Cartel Gold Ends Up at the U.S. Mint How Drug Cartel Gold Ends Up at the U.S. Mint The U.S. Mint is legally required to sell only legal, domestic gold. Instead, it is the last link in a chain that launders foreign gold for an insatiable market.
U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’
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La Casa de la Moneda de EE. UU. compra oro de un cartel de Colombia y lo vende como ‘estadounidense’
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. investigación del times Cada año, la Casa de la Moneda de Estados Unidos vende más de mil millones de dólares en monedas de oro de inversión. Cada una lleva estampado un icono como el águila calva, que significa la garantía del gobierno, exigida por ley, de que el oro es 100 por ciento estadounidense.
U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Times Investigation Every year, the United States Mint sells more than $1 billion of investment-grade gold coins. Each is stamped with an icon like the bald eagle, signifying the government’s guarantee, required by law, that the gold is 100 percent American.
How We Traced U.S. Government Gold to a Drug Cartel
Almost three years ago, I became obsessed with gold. I’d been watching the price shoot up for two decades. By December of 2023, gold was an eye-watering $2,000 an ounce, inflated by the anxiety of wealthy investors and governments. They worried about terrorist attacks and wars and financial instability and, lately, disease. Gold, they reasoned, would hold its value if stocks and bonds and dollars lost theirs.
U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as 'American'
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How We Traced U.S. Government Gold to a Drug Cartel
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East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia
Feith Shimila Murunga says her boss groped, beat and raped her. Mary Wanjiru Nyambura says she was thrown from a balcony. Winfridah Kwamboka never even made it back home. East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers. March 16, 2025 On any given day in Kenya, dozens, if not hundreds of women buzz around the Nairobi international airport’s departures area.
Kenia apuesta su economía a mujeres dispuestas a arriesgarlo todo
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Kenia está apostando su economía a mujeres como Purity Marangu, quien se separó de su familia para trabajar en Arabia Saudita. Trabajan como empleadas domésticas, un empleo que normalmente se considera seguro. Pero muchas han sido agredidas, sometidas al hambre y a cosas peores. Cientos de ellas han muerto.
Kenya Is Betting Its Economy on Women Willing to Risk It All
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Kenya is staking its economy on women like Purity Marangu, who left her family to work in Saudi Arabia. They work as housekeepers, normally a safe job. But many have been assaulted, starved and worse. Hundreds have been killed. Betty Awino said her boss had beaten and raped her. Others ended up stranded for years, unable to get home.
Kenya Is Betting Its Economy on Women Willing to Risk It All
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The Diplomat Who Was Accused of Sexual Abuse but Kept His Job
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Pauline Muthoni Kariuki said her Saudi employer and his friend raped her in 2020. She became pregnant and sought help at the embassy. There, she said, a Kenyan diplomat, Robinson Juma Twanga, accused her of seducing men.Credit...Kiana Hayeri for The New York Times Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Listen to this article · 5:32 min Learn more Dec.
Kenya Kept a Diplomat in His Job Despite Years of Sex Abuse Accusations
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Kenya’s government received complaints that a diplomat was sexually abusing women, according to a U.N. official and a labor leader. But officials allowed the diplomat to continue working with migrant women. The diplomat, Robinson Juma Twanga, was the longtime labor attaché in Saudi Arabia.
The Diplomat Who Was Accused of Sexual Abuse but Kept His Job
Vinicius Junior's future has been one of the biggest topics at Real Madrid for months, but things really heated up this week.
Kenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit.
The reports were piling in, one worse than the next. Kenyan maids working in Saudi Arabia had their passports confiscated, wages denied and food withheld. Some were beaten by their bosses for offenses as minor as not knowing how to operate a washing machine. Others were killed. Instead of demanding that the Saudi government protect these women, President William Ruto of Kenya pledged to send even more workers to Saudi Arabia, more quickly and less prepared than before.
Kenya’s Key Export Used to Be Coffee. Now It’s Cheap Labor.
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Kenya’s Key Export Used to Be Coffee. Now It’s Cheap Labor. There’s big money in sending poor workers abroad. Here’s how the economics work. Women train in domestic work at a training center in Nairobi to prepare for jobs overseas.Credit...Kiana Hayeri for The New York Times Nov. 14, 2025, 5:02 a.m. ET For years, Kenya’s most important export was coffee.
Kenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit.
Europe|Kenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/world/europe/kenya-president-saudi-arabia-maids.html The reports were piling in, one worse than the next. Kenyan maids working in Saudi Arabia had their passports confiscated, wages denied and food withheld. Some were beaten by their bosses for offenses as minor as not knowing how to operate a washing machine. Others were killed.
Kenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit.
The reports were piling in, one worse than the next. Kenyan maids working in Saudi Arabia had their passports confiscated, wages denied and food withheld. Some were beaten by their bosses for offenses as minor as not knowing how to operate a washing machine. Others were killed. Instead of demanding that the Saudi government protect these women, President William Ruto of Kenya pledged to send even more workers to Saudi Arabia, more quickly and less prepared than before.
Mientras Tiffany Trump iba en el yate de un magnate del petróleo, su suegro hacía tratos petroleros
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. El viaje, que ocurría a la par de negociaciones diplomáticas sobre la expansión de la industria petrolera, refleja lo difícil que es distinguir dónde terminan los intereses del gobierno de EE. UU. y dónde empiezan los de la familia Trump. El Phoenix 2 en Zadar, Croacia, en 2023.
Tiffany Trump Cruised on an Oil Mogul’s Yacht as Her Father-in-Law Talked Oil Deals Original
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. The vacation, amid diplomatic talks on oil industry expansion, is a measure of how hard it is to tell where the interests of government end and those of the Trump family begin. Listen to this article · 14:26 min Learn more The Phoenix 2 in Zadar, Croatia, in 2023. The craft is said to belong to the petrochemical magnates Ercument and Ruya Bayegan.
Tiffany Trump’s Family Cruised the Mediterranean on an Oil Mogul's Yacht
Massad Boulos traveled to Libya in July as the State Department’s senior Africa adviser. But as he talked to energy executives and government leaders, his other position was no less important. He was also the father-in-law of President Trump’s daughter Tiffany.
He Asked Tiffany Trump to Marry Him. Then the Deals Started Coming.
ATHENS, Greece -- Michael Boulos was an aspiring businessperson, just a few years out of college, when he knelt in the White House Rose Garden in January 2021 and asked President Donald Trump's daughter Tiffany Trump to marry him. Almost immediately after she said yes, Boulos, his family and their associates were benefiting financially from his proximity to his soon-to-be in-laws. The first deal was a family affair.
He asked Tiffany Trump to marry him. Then the deals started coming
ATHENS, Greece — Michael Boulos was an aspiring businessperson, just a few years out of college, when he knelt in the White House Rose Garden in January 2021 and asked President Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany Trump to marry him. Almost immediately after she said yes, Boulos, his family and their associates were benefiting financially from his proximity to his soon-to-be in-laws. The first deal was a family affair.
Le pidió matrimonio a Tiffany Trump, y los negocios empezaron a fluir
Michael Boulos era un aspirante a empresario con pocos años de haberse graduado de la universidad cuando en enero de 2021 se arrodilló en el Jardín de Rosas de la Casa Blanca y le pidió matrimonio a Tiffany Trump, la hija del presidente Donald Trump. Ella dijo “sí” y, casi inmediatamente, Boulos, su familia y sus asociados ya estaban cosechando los beneficios económicos de su proximidad a su futura familia política. El primer negocio fue un asunto familiar.
He asked Tiffany Trump to marry him. Then the deals started coming.
ATHENS, Greece — Michael Boulos was an aspiring businessperson, just a few years out of college, when he knelt in the White House Rose Garden in January 2021 and asked President Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany Trump to marry him. Almost immediately after she said yes, Boulos, his family and their associates were benefiting financially from his proximity to his soon-to-be in-laws. The first deal was a family affair.
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