Brazil/Colombia: Indians Create Militias Against Drugs In Tribes

Brazil/Colombia: Indians Create Militias Against Drugs In Tribes   Translated from Portuguese, Original Below   Children and young indigenous people drink and take drugs without any control.   Alcoholism, drugs, black magic, rape and suicide are increasingly routine part of indigenous communities located in an isolated region of the country, on the borders with Peru and Colombia. In the land of Tikunas in the far western Amazon, there is no control on the sale of alcohol and...

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