“I’m too old for this. I’m not going to be driven off of my land again,” says Juliana Guzman, a farmer from La Cerca. The walls of her house are riddled with cracks from the explosions that shake the ground every day. Her neighbors from the agricultural cooperative show moldy cocoa pods from their harvest, which has already been tainted by chemicals used in the trial operation of the Pueblo Viejo gold mine. Highly toxic cyanide, which is used in gold mining, is borne by rivers into the soils of the region, inflicting considerable harm.
https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/mailalert/894/stop-toxic-gold-mining-in-the-caribbean
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