in the cashin savannah's the landing strips of the drug traffickers are side by side with the open air mines. in order to dry up the armed groups money sources the police step up raids against the illegal mines everywhere in the gold bearing zones the same desolate landscapes forests and rivers devastated contaminated by mercury. in fact it's in the name of environmental protection that the authorities intervene. running as a minority i mean what counts in this operation is the surprise factor to be able to catch them red had. one hundred fifty policemen surround a zone of unauthorized mining operations the commandos were deployed within minutes . but most of the time the workers have already bolted before the arrival of the troops who find only recently abandoned equipment the engine still wont. today sixteen miners are apprehended after a brief appearance in court will set off again in search of work in other illegal mines this excavator hidden before the arrival of the police doesn't escape notice by the aerial surveillance results of the day's operation eight machines immobilized a