Fighting Drug Traffickers Deep in the Peruvian Amazon
28 October 2025

Fighting Drug Traffickers Deep in the Peruvian Amazon

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Isolated indigenous tribes deep in the Amazon rainforests of Peru are seeing the crop used to make cocaine spread into their lands from drug traffickers seeking more territory for cultivation. With the incursion comes deforestation and violence. We go to the rainforest and meet the self-defense force patrolling the jungle to stop the destruction. 



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