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After Peruvian authorities shut down one of the country’s largest illegal gold mines, La Pampa, earlier this year, informal and illegal miners have been encroaching on new areas, like this one in southeastern part of the country. This newly opened gold field was, until recently, Amazon forest. (Photo/Jim Wyss/Miami Herald/TNS)
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the book ‘Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring’ by Miami Herald journalists Jay Weaver and Nicholas Nehamas and former Herald journalists Jim Wyss and Kyra Gurney, based on a Herald series that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It is now available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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Domenic Esposito s sculpture The Salable (2020) is part of the new exhibition in West Palm Beach entitled Blank Slate.
A look at the minimum wage and medical marijuana in the Legislative Session. Plus, a new book on Miami s connection to the illegal gold trade. How LGBTQ students are finding connection in quarantine and a new sculpture exhibition in West Palm Beach exploring mental health.
On this Thursday, March 4, episode of Sundial:
Legislative Update
The legislative session is underway in Tallahassee and there are a number of controversial bills up for debate with lawmakers. One proposed bill would limit who qualifies for the $15 minimum wage increase.
Exposing Shady Gold Traders, Illegal Gun Traffickers and Government Lies
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WE ARE BELLINGCAT
By Eliot Higgins
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Higgins, a college dropout in Leicester, in the heart of Middle England, was working a dead-end office job when he became obsessed with unearthing the truth in war zones using little more than YouTube and geolocation. Rejecting what he terms “cyber-miserabilism” and critics who argue the internet has obliterated civil society and destroyed journalism, he saw cyberspace as a bottomless well of open-source material available to anyone who cared to look.
He began to break exclusives troop movements and rebel victories in Libya, the use of cluster munitions by Bashar al-Assad on his own people. As Higgins’s fascinating book unfolds, he evolves from a lone digital Sherlock Holmes to the head of Bellingcat: a conglomerate of researchers battling the “counterfactual community,” Syrian government propaganda, powerful Russian trolls and governme
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