Peru election highlights lack of plans to tackle illegal mining despite growing environmental crisis

Peru election highlights lack of plans to tackle illegal mining despite growing environmental crisis

Peruvians head to the polls Sunday to elect a new president and Congress, but illegal mining - a major driver of deforestation and mercury pollution - has received little attention on the campaign trail, even as it spreads deeper into the Amazon and Indigenous territories.

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