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Gangs taking villages on Brazil-Peru border ‘hostage’, say Indigenous leaders

Delegation sent to Brasília after gunmen from organised crime group enter homes in western Amazon Forest Indigenous leaders on the Brazil-Peru border say their communities are being “taken hostage” by organised crime groups who are running rampant across the region, destroying Amazon Forest, building roads and trafficking drugs. Earlier this month, masked men armed with semi-automatic weapons entered homes in Apiwtxa, a village in the Kampa do Rio Amônia Indigenous Territory, intimidating people and searching for targets. Continue reading...

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