AN ISOLATED TRIBE EMERGES FROM THE RAIN FOREST. In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.

An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest

Before Nicolás (Shaco) Flores was killed, deep in the Peruvian rain forest, he had spent decades reaching out to the mysterious people called the Mashco Piro. Flores lived in the Madre de Dios region-a vast jungle surrounded by an even vaster wilderness, frequented mostly by illegal loggers, miners, narco-traffickers, and a few adventurers.

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