Drugs barons accused of destroying Guatemala's rainforest

Environmentalists say settlers working for traffickers aiming to launder money or build airstrips have burned down huge tractsCocaine barons and farmers have been accused of cutting down swaths of Guatemala's rainforest to carve out airstrips and to launder drug money, threatening biodiversity and ancient Maya ruins.More than a fifth of the 2.1m-hectare tropical forest - Latin America's biggest after the Amazon - has been burned and cleared by settlers who are often working for drug traffickers...