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The illegal gold trade is growing in Ecuador. Earlier this year, President Guillermo Lasso declared illegal mining a threat to national security, linking the practice to organized crime, including money laundering and arms and fuel trafficking.
With gold prices near all-time highs, little has been done to stem the spread. But one indigenous group - the A’i Kofan of Sinangoe - has said no to mining in its corner of the Amazon rainforest.
Dan Collyns reports from northeastern Ecuador.
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