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Across Latin America, quest for gold brings riches, conflict : MEXICO CITY -- Steadily high prices for gold are having a dramatic impact on parts of Latin America , bringing a flood of foreign investment and stirring a gold bug among wildcat miners in the jungles. Some of Latin America's poorest nations – Bolivia ... Kansas City Star

Across Latin America, quest for gold brings riches, conflict : Acting on behalf of 18 villages around the mine, the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights asked in 2010 for Guatemala to suspend mine operations. Neither the state nor Goldcorp complied. The profits splashing out of such mines have spurred some ...