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How illegal Amazon gold entered the global market

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Cartels have realized that smuggling precious metals is far more lucrative and legally ambiguous than moving cocaine. Firms in Miami acted as willing buyers for illegal gold violently strip-mined from the Peruvian Amazon. By melting dirty gold together with clean scrap, they instantly erased the supply chain footprint, allowing blood gold to enter the global financial system right under the nose of regulators.

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