Geopolitics
Gold, Power, and Perpetual Peril: How Peru's Election Embodies the Global South's Extractive Dilemma
Peru's presidential election hinges on the votes of half a million small gold miners operating under the controversial REINFO program, a system of extended provisional permits. This raw exposure of how desperate economic survival for the Global South's impoverished masses is cynically leveraged for political power, while environmental devastation is sanctioned, lays bare the brutal legacy of extractive colonialism that continues to strangle nations.
