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Antonio José Paz Cardona

A Colombian soldier looks at a deforested land formerly used by drug traffickers for poppy plantations near the Huila department in southern Colombia.
Environment

The Deforestation Gangs of Colombia

In the country's southeast Guaviare department, harvested wood rots on the ground while gangs and drug traffickers take over the land for illegal mining and agriculture.

By Antonio José Paz Cardona