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The collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in a remote area of central Venezuela has exposed the sense of abandonment felt by small or rural communities bypassed by a quasi-economic renaissance seen in the South American country's capital and cities. People in La Paragua, the closest community to Bulla Loca, an open-pit mine were dozens of men and women worked at any given time, repeatedly expressed frustration with the government Thursday as funerals began for some of the victims of Tuesday’s collapse. With at least 16 people killed, the accident Tuesday is one of the worst in Venezuela's poorly regulated mining industry, which has grown in response to the dwindling of oil production in the OPEC nation.

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