Paul Rosolie

It's brilliant.

First, what they do is they...

they subsidize the poorest people.

And they say, go up this river, turn left at the tree, and just start there.

And they're like, here's a few grand.

And these people are like, I never had a few grand before.

They're like, buy gasoline, here's a chainsaw, go clear some land.

They send these people up there.

And then when they show up a year later, and these people have made an illegal farm out in the jungle,

They go, hey, we need a safe house.

Remember that time we gave you the gasoline and now you live here?

You're going to work for us now.

And so they're kind of a friend of the people like that.

They have safe houses all over the jungle.

And then when the bosses come to collect what they're growing out there, I mean, the police busted a narco operation that was in the middle of the jungle.

I mean, you know, hiking to the ancient forest, like just days into the jungle.

These people are going on foot with sacks and stuff.

And the way they do their airstrips is you think the canopy of the rainforest is 150 feet tall, 160 feet tall.

And if you clear the interior of the landing strip, the trees are still meeting overhead.

And so you can't fly over and see down.