After it stopped raining, Johan tied his father's raincoat around himself while playing in the front yard of their temporary home next to their satellite TV dish at a mining camp in La Pampa in Peru's Madre de Dios region. It's not just miners who are threatened with economic catastrophe from the government's campaign to wipe out illegal mining operations, said a mining camp cook. For every miner there is a family that eats because he works, she said. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
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