This isn't about Ayers at a Chicago cocktail party.
Barrick Gold the corporation that gifted him a trip has been roundly accused on human rights abuses around the world.
These aren't just business trips, they are with a big tough corporation with documented accusations of human rights abuses around the world.
A small bit of summary from one Human Rights group reports:
MiningWatch’s local partners have issued a report in which they claim that at least 22 people have been killed, over 100 wounded and thousands arbitrarily detained. The most recent reports from an investigative journalist, as yet unconfirmed, tell a harrowing tale of widespread rape by security forces, cultural extinction of the Ipili people and forced relocation of villagers to make way for mine expansion.
Links after the fold...
Mining Watch Canada on Barrick Gold
Corp Watch on Barrick
This isn't just a free airplane trip, it can and should be blogged into a more well developed story.
Barrick Gold guards are accused of raping local women and forcing them to eat the condoms used in their assaults.
This is not just a business trip.