Panama's Darien teems with FARC drug runners

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Panama's Darien teems with FARC drug runners

Our young men are forced by these drug traffickers to act as guides along the trails," said tribal leader Betanio Chiquidama, who represents Embera and Wounaan peoples living in Darien. "They say: 'You die, or you take us'," he said

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Villagers say they live in constant fear that gunmen will emerge from the forest to raid food crops and other supplies and assault women. Mothers worry their sons will be lured away from traditional livelihoods to work for drug traffickers.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64P01720100526

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