breathing: Fifty meters underground, the air is hotter than at the surface, according to CNN. The humidity is overwhelming and you can smell the stench of the dozens of men who have already spent half their day down here, inside one of hundreds of gold mines deep in the jungle in southern Venezuela. He's muddy, sweaty and breathing heavily, crushing stone after stone around him. Venezuela boasts the largest oil reserves in the world, but gold is increasingly its lifeblood. In Caracas, it allows Maduro to allegedly buy the military's loyalty to his embattled government. In the area around the mines, gold has replaced the near-worthless bolivar, with even the cost of a haircut quoted in gold.
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