The urgency of the Santos administration underscores some serious security challenges: Revenue from mines helps bankroll a decades-long insurgency, while competition for access to resources stokes violence among illegal groups and within the local communities already burdened with poverty and high levels of forced displacement. The environmental impact, in the form of mercury runoff and pollution, is severe.
http://eurasia.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/07/17/latin_america_s_gold_diggers
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