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International Business Times
International Business Times
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David SALAZAR

Colombian Rebels Holding Amazon Hostage In Peace Talks

In part of the Amazon, each tree felled is approved by the so-called Central General Staff (EMC), as the FARC dissident group calls itself (Credit: AFP)

Colombian guerrilla fighters, who long used kidnapping to raise cash and gain negotiating clout, have turned to a new type of hostage: the Amazon rainforest.

By allowing or preventing logging in areas under their control, fighters of the now-defunct FARC who rejected a peace deal and remain in arms set the pace of deforestation as a means of pressuring the government in peace talks.

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