South America on Vice

  • The Mercy Rule

    Someone's Super Bowl

    This is how we wind up with something like Saturday's SEC Championship Game, which is an orgy of crass bloat and khaki-clad excess to some, something much more important than the Super Bowl to a great many others, and objectively a good deal stranger a thing than we're supposed to notice. Full story

    2012 Nov 30 David Roth Sports
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  • The Gold Rush That Is Destroying Suriname's Rainforest

    Suriname's Krikie Nigi gold camp represents the Platonic ideal of environmental devastation. From our car window, we see mud piles, craters filled with foaming mercury-contaminated water, the occasional scorched tree. Artisanal mining crews move in swarms, working through the wre… Full story

    2012 Jul 17 Kel O'Neill and Eline Jongsma Travel
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