We followed a truck to an operation that is pumping dirty cobalt into the international supply chain under the aegis of the Congolese presidential guard.
Mr Castillo struck agreements with the vigilantes: they will be vetted, in theory at least, and then join an ill-defined rural defence corps under the army's aegis.
Also under Hamilton's aegis, a decimally based currency was adopted, an excise tax was imposed on whiskey, and a protective tariff was adopted to favor domestic goods.
Even so, a Ford's battlegroup is well equipped to defend itself from ballistic missile strikes as proven by recent tests of the SM6 missile carried by the group's AEGIS cruisers.