InSight Crime | From the Ground Up

The Shadow of El Dorado | 01 Blood Gold

Our search for Colombia’s blood gold takes us to Segovia and the illegal mines at the very beginning of the global supply chain. But what we find there is a strange mirror world, where conventional narratives fall apart, and the names and labels we try to apply do not make sense.__The Shadow of El Dorado is not just a podcast, we also have some incredible additional content to explore. <a href="https://insightcrime.org/audio-from-the-ground-up/the-shadow-of-el-dorado-podcast/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Visit the podcast page</a> to see videos, photos, interviews, and to follow the paper trail of key documents we uncovered during the investigation. <a href="https://insightcrime.org/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">insightcrime.org</a>

We have spent the last 15 years investigating organized crime in the Americas from the ground up. Now, on our audio channel, you can hear the best of our investigative and analytic work – from the Patagonia to the Rio Grande Valley to the Andean mountains. Narrated to you by our investigators, we will highlight the human side of this scourge and explain the intricacies of this multifaceted industry. Find it on Apple, YouTube, and Amazon Music, or wherever you get your audio content.