Logging mafias have caused massive deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. In just one year, 17,500 hectares of primary forest were lost in the San Martin region, a department bordering the Amazon, home to Quechua communities.
So far in 2021 there have been 159 femicides and 20,000 complaints filed in a country where the judicial system seems incapable of providing an effective response to these crimes