Costa Rica’s Security Minister Mario Zamora, reveal newly dug tunnels, collapsed mountain sections, and pools for washing ore with cyanide and mercury, contaminating soil and water and threatening nearby populations. Despite a $1 million security operation involving about a hundred police officers per shift, the authorities admit their capacity to control the sprawling illegal activity is minimal.
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