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In Mexico, forests fall prey to crime mafias
The fight is about trees. But it is part of a greater struggle in Mexico, to beat back rapacious criminal organizations that keep extending their reach, from drug smuggling to migrant kidnapping, from gasoline rustling to software piracy — and now timber theft. In Cheran, this struggle is being waged by civilians impatient with the government’s inaction or, they charge, its complicity.