The price of gold skyrockets, fuels illegal mining in South America
by editors@theworld.org (Hannah Chanatry) from The World: Latest Stories on (#70N7H)
Earlier this week, a South American trade bloc ruled that Peru has violated its commitments to cracking down on illegal gold mining. This comes as the price of gold is skyrocketing. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler talks with Will Freeman, a fellow for Latin America studies at the Council for Foreign Relations, for details of what's happening along the Peruvian Amazon.