Peru: How chocolate saved a community and a protected area from the drug trade

Mongabay
Jul 6, 2018, 2:54 pm158 pts
Augusto Sangama confesses that, twenty years ago, his life was worth nothing. He believes others in the community of Huicungo in the San Martín region in northern Peru felt the same way, saying that if any of them had been killed, no one would have asked for explanations of their death. These were times when…

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