Ooo Kilos: Drive Development and Disease Epidemic

ooo kilos: In a recently published development plan Venezuela set the goal to produce more than 80,ooo kilos of gold a year by 2025, according to The Guardian. Venezuela crisis threatens disease epidemic across continent - experts Read more The project, launched in February 2016, was supposed to drive development, but many mining projects announced by the government have failed to materialize, and the mining arc seems now seems little more than a legal veneer for plunder by an expanding range of armed groups. Venezuela claims to possess some of the largest untapped gold and coltan reserves in the world, and the country's gold rush picked up when the president decreed the creation of a massive area of 112,000 sq km destined for mining, known as the Orinoco mining arc. Multiple non-state armed groups are spreading their hold over southern Venezuela, adding another unpredictable factor to the country's current crisis and complicating any efforts for a peaceful resolution. Venezuelan crime syndicates have run informal mines for years. Their methods and origins may be different, but their motivation is one which has driven violence in Latin America since colonial times a hunger for gold and other valuable minerals. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.