Mystery of hit on Tren de Aragua leader: is US making Venezuela safe for mining?

Trump boasted of assassinating Héctor Guerrero Flores but details are scarce and experts doubt it will harm drug trade At 10am on 9 June, a huge explosion rattled Las Claritas, a ramshackle town on the edge of a vast goldmine carved out of the Venezuelan Amazon. “The blast was so powerful that my sister’s house shook, and she was 10 kilometres away,” said one miner, who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons. “Imagine the impact.” Continue reading...

By Thomas Graham in Bogotá and Clavel Rangel in Miami