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Quadruple Homicide in Peruvian Amazon Puts Criminal Logging in Spotlight
2014-09-12 00:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: PUCALLPA, Peru-Tribal people in a remote headwaters region in the Peruvian Amazon are reacting with defiance and despair to the recent brutal murders of four community leaders who were ambushed on a jungle trail near the border with Brazil. Among those slain last week was Edwin Chota Valero, 54, the president of the Ashéninka indigenous settlement of Saweto. Chota was a charismatic activist who opposed drug traffickers and criminal timber syndicates that have come to operate with a sense of...
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