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What We Saw in One Venezuelan Gold Town
What We Saw in One Venezuelan Gold Town
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NYT World
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Anatoly Kurmanaev and Mariana Martínez
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28 Sep 2026 · 14:08 UTC
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Economic Oppression
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1 min read
Summary
Documents how foreign corporate investment in Venezuelan gold mining has failed to improve exploitative working conditions, exemplifying corporate resource extraction that perpetuates economic oppression and worker suffering despite external intervention.
El Callao, the town at the heart of Venezuela’s gold mining industry.
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