Dirty Gold

The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring

De: Jay Weaver, Nicholas Nehamas, Jim Wyss, Kyra Gurney

Narrado por: Jay Weaver, Nicholas Nehamas, Jim Wyss, Kyra Gurney

A searing exposé of the illegal gold trade and how it is a part of our lives and economy.

All that glitters is not gold.

Gold is the new cocaine - and it's just as lucrative, dangerous and destructive.

Dirty Gold is a searing exposé on the booming gold mining industry and destruction on the land and people of Latin America. It looks closely at a small US firm in Miami that helped transform the city into the nation's number one importer of gold into the United States.

The book follows the meteoric rise and fall of a group of drug traders known as 'the three amigos' who laundered narco money through gold illegally brought into the US and raked in millions before they were caught. Whilst they were making their millions, the humanitarian situation in Colombia, Peru and many other countries deteriorated dramatically.

©2021 Jay Weaver, Nicholas Nehamas, Jim Wyss, Kyra Gurney (P)2021 Hachette Audio

Gold Rush in Peru

This novel is the result of a series of documentary articles in the Miami Herald. It showcases how gold mined in Peru ended up resulting in US based companies making billions of dollars but devastating the Amazon rainforest. Worse yet, it an easy way for drug traffickers to do money laundering .

Written like a legal thriller, this book highlights a story that affects everyone. A few years ago, there was a sudden increase in gold trading alongside a warning for the average person to avoid wearing gold. It seemed as if gold had become a great commodity again, a revival of past gold rushes and harkening to days of Incan empire. Unfortunately, the story doesn’t quite unfold with fictional pizazz. With better editing, this story which showcases how international companies can make profit at the expense of poorer nations and peoples could have had a greater impact. It often repeated the devastation of agriculture and mercury poisoning as a result of mining techniques and would double back on timelines. Having a key figure retire on February 30 is eye raising error. But at least it offers some resolution in terms of changes that everyone could implement.