Latin American Cartels Are Abandoning Cocaine for Gold | Louise Callaghan
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“They’re turning to gold mining because they can make more money from it.” Collapsing cocaine prices and soaring gold values are pushing Latin America's criminal gangs into illegal mining, creating a lucrative new industry that is devastating communities across the Amazon, says The Times’s senior US correspondent Louis Callaghan. Louis Callaghan was speaking to Jane Mulkerrins on Times Radio. Listen live every Saturday from 1-4pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/
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