Despite U.S. sanctions, a South Florida businessman is linked to Venezuela’s gold industry

Using a rope, a miner prepares to descend into the earth in Tumeremo, Venezuela. The work is not only dirty and dangerous — thanks, in part, to the use of toxic mercury to separate gold from plain rock — but it endangers those in surrounding communities by poisoning rivers and the fish that inhabit them. 
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