I went to work in the jungle and learnt lessons that changed my life

 “Don’t be surprised, amigo,” Ken tells me. It’s more a surprise, he says, that the barrels aren’t accompanied by a black patch of oil or mercury, the main chemical miners in the region use to extract gold from the earth.

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