They employ local people, mostly indigenous, as porters or guides - to the distress of Tino Quintana, regional cacique or chief of the Comarca Embera, a semi-autonomous indigenous territory. Part of the issue, he says, is isolation which reduces work opportunities and commerce. "So come the narcotraffickers," he says. "They offer considerable sums to our youth to work."
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