'Narcos are looking for me': deadly threats to Peru's indigenous leaders
Last modified on Tue 6 Apr 2021 07.51 EDT “We’re looking for you, dead or alive,” is one of the daily threats that Herlín Odicio receives on his mobile phone. The leader of the indigenous Cacataibo people in Peru’s central Amazon has been forced into hiding for standing up to drug traffickers trying to steal his land. “We’ve reported coca plantations on our land so many times and nothing has been done,” Odicio said. He said the threats against his life spiralled after he turned down an offer of 500,000 Peruvian soles (£96,500) for every drug flight leaving from a secret airstr...
Source: theguardian.com