How gold surpassed cocaine as Peru’s most profitable criminal industry - The Guardian
How gold surpassed cocaine as Peru’s most profitable criminal industry - The Guardian
Source: The Guardian
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DW NOTE
The Peruvian state lost control of its mining regions so completely that organized crime now extracts more gold than the country's legal industry — and does it more profitably than moving cocaine. When your illegal gold sector outcompetes your legal one, the problem isn't the criminals' efficiency, it's that you no longer have a functioning state in those territories.