Claudia Vega

So it's, like you say, it's not just in the Arctic.

It's in all the oceans.

And all of us consume fish from the ocean.

Mercury doesn't stay just in the Amazon.

It can travel.

So if we keep emitting mercury, the levels will keep raising.

It could affect all of us.

Like, I think, like...

I tried to show that.

So it's a very complicated situation because, yeah, first of all, right now in Peru, the government is kind of trying to encourage artisanal gold mining.

And there's a formalization process, which is you make a minor legal.

This process started in 2001 and it's still going right now.

I mean, like it's so ineffective.

That it's not doing what it should be doing, like really giving fiscalized process for responsible minors.

It's not doing what it should be doing.

I mean, it's not just doing laws.

It's applying to them to see if they're being followed or not.

And I don't know if in the U.S.

it's like that, but in Latin America, they love to write laws, a lot of laws.

And the law is just written.