The largest refuge for Indigenous tribes living in isolation is also a hotspot for poachers and illegal loggers and a major smuggling route for cocaine traffickers
The last decade has seen an explosion of drug trafficking through the Javari’s hidden waterways as the cultivation of coca – the plant used to make cocaine – surged across the border in Peru.
Gen Mauro Esposito, former coordinator of special border operations for Brazil’s federal police, said the triple frontier had become the most dangerous part of the country’s 10,492-mile-long border due to Peru’s “massive” increase in coca cultivation. Esposito oversaw the 2014 arrest of notorious cartel leader Jair Ardela Michué, alias “Javier”, who was personally responsible for at least 50 murders, including a Peruvian police officer. But the Peruvian capo’s capture in a joint Peruvian-Brazilian police operation did not quell the bloodletting.
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