Nice primer on U1 and how U left WY to Canada and Europe 2012-2014…
https://themarketswork.com/2017/12/21/a-uranium-one-primer-clinton-giustra-kazakhstans-uranium-assets/
But this is about Columbia as a furtherance of U1
Giustra’s business involvements with the Clintons extended beyond Kazakhstan:
A few weeks after returning from Kazakhstan in 2005, Giustra attended his first meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.
There, he was introduced to the leader of another country where he had business interests: Álvaro Uribe of Colombia.
Giustra’s interests in Colombia included gold mines, port construction, timber and, more recently, oil production.
Giustra’s Colombian Holding Company “received valuable drilling rights in deals involving a state-owned oil company that went through a few years after he met the Colombian president through the Clinton Foundation”.
In 2007, Giustra played a key role in forming a fast-growing oil company operating in Colombia, Pacific Rubiales Energy. It burst onto the scene that year by purchasing control of an oil production firm that worked closely with the Colombian state oil company, which Uribe had recently privatized. It also signed a pipeline deal with that firm and then won the right to explore for oil in environmentally sensitive areas along the Colombian coast.
The same pattern emerged in 2013, with Blue Pacific – another Giustra Colombian company that benefited from an association with Bill Clinton:
Pacific Infrastructure [owned by Blue Pacific], a company connected to Clinton Foundation mega-donor Frank Giustra, needed $150 million to build a port and pipeline along the northern Colombian coast, it went to the International Finance Corporation for funding.
There was one major obstacle. The project, according to a review by the International Finance Corporation, was deemed “Category A.” That meant it would likely have “significant adverse social and/or environmental impacts that are diverse, irreversible, or unprecedented” on the local community.
Within the next few months, two for-profit companies were created in Cartagena. One was a job-training center to teach locals how to work at the port. The other was a food supplier that helped support fishers and farmers by selling their products to hotels and supermarkets.
Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra launched both companies using funding from the Clinton Foundation’s Colombia-based private investment fund, Fondo Acceso.
https://nypost.com/2015/11/27/the-clintons-colombian-connection-a-secret-investment-fund/
Even as Hillary Clinton is upping her anti-Wall Street rhetoric, here comes word that the Clinton Foundation is running a private-equity company down in Colombia.
The private-equity field is where Mitt Romney earned his fortune — and hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of negative ads from the Obama campaign back in 2008.
The foundation’s Bogota-based firm, Fondo Acceso, was started in 2010 by Bill Clinton, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim and mining magnate Frank Giustra, with seed funding of $20 million from the foundation’s Clinton-Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative and the SLIM Foundation, the Washington Free Beacon reports.
Anything to hide here? Well, Fondo Acceso took down its website once the Beacon broke the story. And the venture wasn’t even registered as a private-equity fund in Colombia, thereby skirting government oversight. A good move for an investment firm linked to the US secretary of state.
https://fusion.tv/story/357169/hillary-clinton-foundation-victims-colombia/
“They are doing nothing for workers,” one Colombian union official told us, with disgust. “I don’t even know what they are doing in this country other than exploiting poverty and extracting money.”
https://nypost.com/2016/10/15/clinton-foundation-more-concerned-with-bills-pal-than-colombias-poor/
Advocates for the poor charged that Pacific Rubiales used front groups to buy up blocks of land to get around laws barring a single ownership of more than 3,000 acres.
“This has created a grave situation and they took control of land that was intended for peasants, said Colombian Senator Jesus Alberto Castilla.