Criminal mafias take over Colombian forests

Mongabay
Sep 7, 2018, 11:29 am410 pts
There are a variety of competing land uses of the Amazon rainforest. The region in southern Colombia that until less than two years ago was the stronghold of the FARC guerrilla group has become the shelter of a criminal structure that unites the dissidents of the now-extinct geurilla group, the criminal gangs…

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