Just Recently Documented Isolated Amazon Tribe Ransacked By Drug Traffickers. Of Course.

This sounds about right for a human interest story. Just recently an isolated Amazon tribe was captured on film. Now it’s thought that drug traffickers have ransacked their entire village. Sounds like every story about a yokel finding a rare creature and then blowing its brains out before scientists could get to it.

Gawker:

Earlier this year,  aerial photos  of a newly discovered tribe living in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest electrified the internet. Now that entire tribe, numbering around 200, has gone missing–and a panicking Brazilian government fears that cocaine smugglers are to blame.

The evidence is chilling. A guard post erected to protect the tribe and its land was “ransacked and destroyed” by men carrying sub-machine and rifles, according to a guard who survived the ambush. Those heavily armed drug traffickers now occupy the base and patrol the forest around the missing tribe’s former village.

Workers from the Brazilian government’s National Indian Foundation report finding a drug-runner’s “rucksack with a broken arrow inside” and a 20-kilogram package of cocaine lying nearby. Officials think the smugglers want to use the territory as a route to move product between Brazil and bordering Peru.

Few things sound more in line with the dark underbelly of us! Discover isolated Amazonian tribe hanging out in their native culture? Check. Expose them to the world? Check. Invariably some lowlifes take advantage of underdeveloped culture, ruining everything? Check. The triple play.