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Trump Wants to Accelerate Extraction in Venezuela. So Do Drug Trafficking Organizations.

Inside Climate News · By Katie Surma · last updated
Illegal mining has enriched the Maduro regime and criminal groups while devastating the Amazon and its people. The U.S. is pulling out of organizations aimed at stopping the harm.

By Katie Surma

On a June day in 2022, gunmen shot Virgilio Trujillo Arana in the head three times in the capital city of Venezuela’s Amazonas state.

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