[Link] Colombia: Coca farmers release 180 soldiers from hostage

Read: 4/11/2021 www.dw.com

Almost 200 Colombian soldiers were released on Thursday after being held hostage by coca farmers with sticks and machetes, a government official said.

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[Link] The Coltan in Your Smartphone is Financing Colombian Guerrilla Armies

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

MEDELLIN, Colombia–Authorities in southern Colombia pulled over a cargo truck looking for drugs in early August. But instead of finding a pile of cocaine bricks, the truck was loaded with a sandy, blue-ish black rock called coltan.

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