Peru's illegal gold miners back Fujimori's vow to end crackdown


  • World
  • Tuesday, 31 May 2016

HUEPETUHE, Peru (Reuters) - In this wildcat gold mining town in the Peruvian Amazon, the boom is over.

A government crackdown on illegal mines at the end of a decade-long gold rush has shuttered restaurants, quieted the town's muddied streets and slowed the flow of migrants from poor Andean towns seeking the jungle's riches.

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