Mexico: Brutal Cartels Fight over Mexico's 'Conflict-Free' Gold Revenues

Dec 6, 2015 | Frank Jack Daniel, Anahi Rama, and Lizbeth Diaz, Reuters
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Heroin traffickers linked to the abduction and disappearance of 43 students a year ago are battling over millions of dollars paid by Canadian mining giant Goldcorp to a village in Mexico's southern gold belt, leading to a wave of murders. As a signatory to a Conflict-Free Gold Standard drawn up by the World Gold Council industry group, Goldcorp commits to extracting the precious metal in a manner that "does not fuel unlawful armed conflict or contribute to serious human rights abuses."