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Beat 02
Follow the money: Nicaragua's gold boom, illegal mining, concessions to regime-linked and Chinese firms, and the U.S. sanctions aimed at them.
Exports, U.S. buyers and the share tied to illegal mining.
Our Substack brief with the day's sourced headlines.
Environmental monitoring of gold mining and protected areas (Spanish).
Companies, concessions and the people linked to them (Spanish).
Independent Nicaraguan outlet; source of the 2026 gold export figures (Spanish).
Official designations, including the gold sector.
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