The Lost Story Of Madre de Dios

Ashe has a sharp pair of eyes. Infants in the camps, she writes, “splash in the mercury-contaminated mining ponds as children throw rusted metal objects at each other. I grab a jagged, rusty, iron hoop from a toddler boy, only to be reprimanded by his mother for stealing his toy… This child lives in a world where mercury is often viewed as an acceptable laxative—the incredible weight of mercury essentially pushes everything out of your digestive tract.”
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