As gangs battle over Peru’s drug trafficking routes, communities and forest are at risk

Mongabay
Nov 8, 2022, 8:19 pm251 pts
Lucía lives in Peru, in one of more than 50 indigenous communities along the Putumayo, an Amazonian river that marks the border between Peru and Colombia. She has a banana plantation on the Colombian side of the river, which she has not visited in months out of fear of Los Sinaloa, an armed group of former…

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