Poor enticed by gold and better life, leave behind environmental ruin

Mongabay
By Glenn SchererAug 7, 2015, 4:34 pm80 pts
[dropcap type="5"]T[/dropcap]he miner stood on the Cusco street corner with his friends, a little past midnight, passing around a bottle of rum and a bottle of Coke. He was tall for a Peruvian, a young and swaggering Cusco kid with a kind of alpha-male noblesse oblige. He had returned from eight years mining…

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