Land grabbing, cattle ranching ravage Colombian Amazon after FARC demobilization

Mongabay
May 30, 2019, 9:25 pm354 pts
Rafael Orjuela, a community leader in Cartagena de Chairá, Colombia, moved to the Amazonian department of Caquetá in 1979 to escape severe economic hardship in the interior Andes region. At the time, Orjuela encountered Amazonian lands covered with dense, virgin rainforest where “exquisite, supremely…

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