Venezuela Security Policy: Illegal Mining and Deforestation
GOLD
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5 JUL 2023
Illegal mining is one of Venezuela's most well-entrenched criminal economies. Are there any legal solutions to the ecocide it causes?…
All About Gold
NEWS
BRAZIL
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7 MAR 2023
Brazilian authorities are shutting down illegal gold mining on Indigenous lands, yet miners move elsewhere. Legislation aims to stop that.
ECUADOR
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20 JAN 2023
Podocarpus Natural Park in southern Ecuador is only the most recent one to be threatened by encroaching gold miners.
COCAINE
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17 NOV 2022
InSight Crime sat down with Suriname's President Chan Santokhi to discuss the multiple criminal challenges ahead for the country.
ELITES AND CRIME
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11 NOV 2022
The Venezuelan government has placed and rogue mining gangs in its crosshairs, as the military is deployed in Bolívar.
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
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2 JUN 2022
Illegal gold mining drives the destruction of Peru's Amazon, where fortune seekers strip forests and leave behind poisonous pools of mercury.
GOLD
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30 MAY 2022
Large-scale illegal gold mining is operating in plain sight on the Lawa River, a natural border between French Guiana and Suriname, despite public efforts from both governments to end the…
ELITES AND CRIME
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17 NOV 2021
At around 11 p.m. on April 6, 2020, Lieutenant Colonel Ernesto Solís was returning to the military base he commanded near the town of Tumeremo in the eastern Venezuela state…
ELITES AND CRIME
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17 NOV 2021
Armed men ambushed a group of gold miners near the Corre Gente mine in the municipality of Sifontes, near to Venezuela’s border with Guyana.
ELITES AND CRIME
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17 NOV 2021
On November 5, 2019, threatening pamphlets appeared on the streets of El Callao, a mining town in Venezuela's eastern state of Bolívar.
CHILE
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28 OCT 2021
Chile has become a convenient exit point for illegal gold from the Amazon, with Dubai emerging as a consistent destination for such shipments.
CARIBBEAN
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29 JUN 2021
The owner of an armored transport company has been charged for his part in a transnational dirty gold network that moved the metal to the United States via Caribbean islands.
COCAINE EUROPE
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17 JUN 2021
A criminal group in Colombia is turning dirty money into adulterated gold, in the latest addition to a long list of laundering schemes using the precious metal.
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