BOGOTA, Colombia — Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining ...
SERRA PELADA, Brazil (Reuters) -With a voice more youthful than his 72 years would suggest, Lucindo Lima sings about the untold riches he never made in Brazil's Serra Pelada mine, a site made famous ...
By Shanna Hanbury A Brazilian federal court has sentenced a key financier to more than 22 years in prison. He was found ...
Ever since Mitú was first established as a settlement in 1935, it has rapidly transformed into an expanding urban town in one of Colombia’s most isolated departments. The Amazonian forests, rivers and ...