after the gold rush: colombian town counts cost of illegal mining boom /

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For five years,the town of Buriticá in northern Colombia was consumed by a gold fever that turned the drowsy mountainside village into a stronghold of illegal mining, mafiosos and armed groups. Following the biggest anti-mining operation in Colombia's history, and that gold rush is now over. But for Buriticá there is no going back; this is now a mining town. And the industry involves Colombia's most powerful crime group,the Urabeños.

Source: insightcrime.org

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