A member of the Embera-Wounaan Image: Wikimedia
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Darién Province, Panamá. Image: Genelle Quarles/Burness Communications
When choppers with armed men arrived in Alto Telire, a Costa Rican community located deep in the south-east mountains, the locals had their answer ready. The newcommers said they were Christian missionaries, and offered Bibles as their proof, but the community knew better and expelled them, according to Levi Sucre Romero, a local leader. He even claims several passports were seized from the outsiders.“This way, it’s not the government who fights organized crime, but the people themselves”
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