Peru’s crackdown on coca pushes illegal growers toward protected areas

Mongabay
Jul 30, 2019, 5:34 pm238 pts
SAN GABÁN, Peru — “We have to sit down and talk,” says Julián* as he shakes off his rain-soaked cape and looks for a dry spot among the scattered stones on the roadside. We have just arrived at Lechemayo, a town along the Interoceanic Highway in San Gabán district, in Peru’s southern Puno department.…

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