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‘We Have No Choice’: Indigenous Guards Take on Cocaine Gangs in Peru’s Amazon
Indigenous Guards use drones and patrols to detect and report nearly 30,000 acres of coca threatening tribal lands amid rising violence, officials say.
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‘We have no choice’: Indigenous guards take on cocaine gangs in Peru’s Amazon
As they patrol their ancestral territory deep in the Amazon, some of the members of the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard carry spears.Others wield machetes. Several have traditional bows and arrows and one has an ancient shotgun slung over his shoulder.Threading their way along overgrown paths and wading through rivers, the mission of this tightly-knit group of Indigenous villagers is deadly serious — to find illicit plantations of coca, the key ingre…
·Portland, United States
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Total News Sources6
Leaning Left2Leaning Right0Center1Last UpdatedBias Distribution67% Left
Bias Distribution
- 67% of the sources lean Left
67% Left
L 67%
C 33%
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