Jungle Warfare: Peru Destroys Illegal Mining

Peru's new high commissioner for mining formalization, former army general Augusto Soto Castañola has ordered an all-out assault on the 40,000 illegal miners operating in the jungles of Peru.

A multi-force police operation has been burning down mining camps along the Inter-Oceanic Highway linking Peru and Brazil - destroying boat engines, vehicles, mining equipment and chemicals including large stockpiles of mercury that was destined to end up in jungle rivers. 

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