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Hey there gold buyer, great news! By buying gold you are helping trickledown economics in developing nations.

ESPECIALLY IF YOU BUY GOLD THAT HAS NO TRACEABLE CHAIN OF SUPPLY!!!

Yes indeed, moneyed-up gringo, when you buy that cut priced necklace you too might be helping to supply the money earned by a thirteen year old girl forced into prostitution in the Peruvian jungle after being lured by pimps with promises of jobs that don't exist. Bet that makes you feel better about capitalism, eh? Here's AP (translated):

Lima (AP) -  police rescued 234 women from sexual exploitation in dozens of whorehouses in a remote zone of the Peruvian jungle where for the last three decades informal miners have dug for gold, according to authorities Sunday.


"234 women, 15 of them under the age of 18, have been rescued. They were found in 60 whorehouses in the city of Puerto Maldonado and in nearby zones where they were sexually exploited", the Vice-Minister of the Interior, Alberto Otárola, told Associated Press.


Puerto Maldonado, capital of the Madre de Dios region, is located 861km South-East of Lima and is surrounded by an abundance of informal gold mining operations that have been the reason for an intense migration from other regions.


Otárola added that, "during the operation we found a girl of 13 years old."


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A good job of work done this weekend by Franklin Briceño of AP Lima.