A new report on organized crime and gold mining in Latin America offers insight into how states, the international community, and the private sector have failed to control a criminal boom that has caught the region woefully underprepared........
The investigation highlights how two critical factors -- higher risks and lower profits in drug trafficking, and a surge in international gold prices -- have combined to create the ideal conditions for a boom in criminal gold mining. This phenomenon has been most evident in Colombia and Peru, but has also left its mark in Mexico, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil............
In addition, the report describes both the environmental and the human toll extracted by this criminalization of informal mining, which has led to widespread deforestation and mercury poisoning and been linked to displacement, forced labor and sex trafficking.
http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/how-latin-america-failed-to-halt-rise-of-illegal-gold-mining
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