• livus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The miners are not Peruvian nationals. It takes a lot of capital to sneak into the Peruvian jungle and start mining.

    I’m a bit dubious about the jetpacks but the rest - that miners are trying to scare Indigenous locals - is legit, and it’s far from the first time this has happened.

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      1 year ago

      I mean they’re cartels mining gold in vast untamed stretches of jungle. Honestly scouting out illegal gold mining sites in that kind of situation is one of the only practical uses I can imagine for a jetpack today