We move out of the burning midday sun and over to the
local restaurant. Martin hands me a glass of lemonade made, I suspect,
from local tap water. I drink it reluctantly, fully aware that the local
water supply reportedly has the highest levels of mercury in the world.
In his nearby storage warehouse my luggage is sat next to dozens of
huge drums of sodium cyanide, imported from Georgia. Cyanide is another
dangerous chemical visibly present in rivers surrounding the town.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/23/the-gold-mines-of-colombia/
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