In July, Maduro ordered the deployment of the armed forces to dislodge illegal miners, and authorities have reported the destruction of some camps.
The mining — much of which takes place in the Venezuelan Amazon — has had a devastating impact on the environment and Indigenous communities.
This can prove advantageous for child miners like Gustavo, who sweeps up dirt outside a liquor store in El Peru with his brothers, hoping a drunken customer may have dropped some gold.He has been mining since the age of six, and doesn’t go to school either.
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