'We have no choice': Indigenous guards take on cocaine gangs in Peru's Amazon

Members of the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard who patrol the Peruvian Amazon, watching for coca crops being planted in the rainforest — a source of deforestation, violence, and bloodshed on their land.

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard patrols their ancestral land armed with spears, machetes and a drone — risking their lives to keep cocaine producers out of the forest.

(Image credit: Simeon Tegel for NPR)