'It destroys everything': Amazon community fights carbon credit project

Chewing on psychoactive coca leaves in a traditional ritual, Colombian Indigenous leader Fabio Valencia seeks the advice of jungle spirits and ancestors about a project sold to his community as a planet-saving initiative.Traditional leader Roberto Marin, 58, added the project was never approved in the "maloka" -- an Indigenous council that has the final say on such matters.

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