In Latin America’s Second Largest Rainforest, an Indigenous Tribe Fights for Its Land

The government’s commitment to the environment was questioned after President Daniel Ortega refused to meet with indigenous leaders last February, despite the Mayangna’s celebrity backing by prominent Nicaraguan activist Bianca Jagger. But Sandinista officials finally responded to the problem in May by forming a special commission and deploying police to forcibly remove the first group of land invaders—180 colonists occupying the indigenous territory of Sauni Tuahka, one of the most deforested regions of Bosawás. Seven squatters were arrested and are being charged for illegally trafficking indigenous communal lands as the government starts to target a network of corrupt public notaries who were falsifying sales titles.
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