In March of 2017, a
team of federal agents arrested Juan Pablo Granda, Samer Barrage, and Renato
Rodriguez, or as they came to be known, “the three amigos”.
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The trio — first
identified publicly by the authors of this book — had built a $3.6 billion
dollar business in metals trading, mostly illegal Peruvian gold that was mined
in the rainforest.
Their arrest and subsequent prosecution laid
bare more than a scheme between a few corrupt traders.
Dirty Gold lifts the
veil on a massive and (very) illegal international business that is more
lucrative than trafficking cocaine, and often just as dangerous.
As this award-winning team of current and
former Miami Herald reporters show, illegal gold mines have become a haven for
Latin American drug money. The gold is sold to metals traders, and ultimately
to scores of unwitting Americans in their jewelry and phones. By following the
trail of these three traders, Dirty Gold leads us into a sprawling criminal
underworld that has never before been in full view.
Reviews
“Dirty Gold is a
jaw-dropping true story of illegal gold mining that exposes its devastating
ecological impact on developing nations in Latin America and a complex web of
corruption and money laundering worth billions in the US. Gold is both
recession-proof and easily melted down, leaving no trace of its lineage, and
Dirty Gold offers a rare and exciting window into a criminal underworld that is
the wild west of gold.” — Seira Wilson, Amazon Book Review
“An authoritative
consideration of ‘dirty’ gold’s grip on the environment and role in rampant
geopolitical corruption.” Kirkus
Reviews
“(An) engrossing
account with a cast of picaresque characters ... (that) tells the full story of
how unethically mined (‘artisanal’) gold makes it from shanty camps like La
Pampa in southern Peru — a Stygian hellhole of brothels, child labor, and
violence — through the global supply chain to become jewelry or part of the
motherboard in your smartphone.” The
New York Times Book Review
“A fascinating
story about one of the world’s biggest, and least talked about, illegal
businesses. It reads like a thriller!”
Andres Oppenheimer, author of Saving the Americas and The Robots are
Coming!
“An engaging
narrative … a fascinating story peppered with colorful characters.” Americas Quarterly
About the authors
Nicholas Nehamas
is an investigative reporter at the Miami Herald. He was part of the global
team of journalists that broke the Panama Papers and won the 2017 Pulitzer
Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
Kyra Gurney is a
reporter at the Miami Herald, where she has worked since 2016 and where she
helped report an award-winning Panama Papers story exposing ties between
Argentine officials and a South Florida real estate empire.
Jay Weaver is an
award-winning reporter at the Miami Herald who has covered the courts,
government, and politics in South Florida for 25 years. He was a member of the
Miami Herald team that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2001 for its
coverage of the federal seizure of Elian Gonzalez, who was saved on a raft at
sea and swept up into an international custody battle between the US government
and Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Jim Wyss is a
prize-winning journalist who has spent most of his career living and working in
Latin America for outlets like the Economist, the San Francisco Chronicle, and
Latin Trade. Since 2011, he has been the Miami Herald’s South America
correspondent based in Bogota, Colombia. He was also part of the reporting team
that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for their work on
the Panama Papers.
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