Amazonian leaders get a choice: Join the narcos or run for your lives
A life-changing series of events kicked off when a man calling himself “Fernando” with a Colombian accent proposed making a huge payment to the remote Indigenous community.
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A life-changing series of events kicked off when a man calling himself “Fernando” with a Colombian accent proposed making a huge payment to the remote Indigenous community.
Illegal coca cultivation in Peru is migrating from the Andean foothills to the Amazonian lowlands. Since 2020, an estimated 20 leaders have been killed in the rainforest.
Peruvian regular forces gunned down between 10 and 15 members of the Shining Path rebel group during an 'Operation Patriot' deployment in which the rebels' leader Víctor Quispe Palomino, also known as 'Comrade José', managed to escape despite being wounded.
In Vizcatán, the last redoubt of militarily active Maoist rebels Shining Path, the army is cracking down on cocaine traffickers