Mauricia Carrizles lives on the Peruvian Amazon’s Inambari River, where her husband sifts for gold and her community cultivates coca leaves. Her migrant parents came from the Andes to the small town of Cuesta Branca before she was born, seeking better lives.
They are not the only ones. Multinational oil companies, drug and arms traffickers, illegal loggers, illicit gold-diggers and now hydropower developers have rushed into this lush region on the border with Bolivia, not far from Brazil, to tap the vast supply of natural resources.
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