Whose jungle is it?

摘要

The San Martin region in northern Peru is a large swathe of tropical land the size of Costa Rica where the eastern foothills of the Andes merge with the Amazon jungle. It used to be best known for drugs and terrorism: its rugged hillsides were perfect for coca, the raw material for cocaine, and as hideouts for the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas. Now that both have largely disappeared from the area, and long stretches of the Marginal Highway, a road connecting it to the Pacific coast, have been surfaced with asphalt, San Martin is seeing a scramble for land.