Welcome to hell: The Peruvian mining city of La Rinconada ...
Welcome to hell: The Peruvian mining city of La Rinconada ... is the highest settlement in the world; a gold mining town, a concentration of misery, a community of about 50,000 inhabitants, many of whom have been poisoned by mercury. ... There is no water supply. Electricity is scarce. Garbage even covers the humble graves of a local cemetery ...