A European party user may wake up to a carrot on Monday morning. Colombian coca farmer to the fact that the only industry has been destroyed.
NUEVA COLOMBIA / CACHICAMO. In the documentary series of the streaming service, heavily armed special forces prepare for the operation.
It means the destruction of coca fields and sheds with tin roofs visible from the helicopter, coca laboratories. Special forces destroy the laboratory and uproot the coca bushes in an instant. Then they get back on the helicopter.
Mission accomplished, the world is once again a better place to communicate the documentary.
Farmers named as enemies will not be interviewed in the Yankee series.
When I meet in the rudimentary a father working in a cocaine laboratory and presenting his farmland Hectorin, I don’t feel in danger.
Hector, who cooks cocaine paste in the middle of a protected rainforest, doesn’t feel like he’s doing wrong.
This is what most Colombians think. They do not consider poor peasants who make a living from coca bush cultivation and cocaine to be criminals.
Hector and later in this story to be introduced Milton appear in the text of their own volition only under their first name due to the sensitivity of the subject.
Hector has learned the profession from his own father. Now she is cooking cocaine paste with her son.
The profession is inherited because it is the only option in many rural peripheral villages.
Fruit growing is not alive as it would be spoiled on the way to marketplaces due to poor roads.
Cooking paste that bread on the table, but it does not get rich.
A billion-dollar business will only come when it leaves the jungle. Cocaine in the business makes it illegal.
The high cost of the ban is reflected in the coca villages of Colombia in many ways.
When I meet Milton, the leader of the remote village of Cachicamo, he mourns the invisibility of young people.
They often have to choose between guerrilla movement and coca cultivation.
Milton is dreaming a decent school, cultural center and university for rural youth.
He then takes me to the village entertainment center. For she means a brothel where women and girls who have fled Venezuela across the border work.
There are enough newcomers, as Venezuela has been suffering from a humanitarian and economic crisis for years.
In the brothels of coca villages, prostitutes earn a few dollars a day after expenses. That’s why they work every day and there are no working hours.
The hostess of the prostitutes recycles them from one coca village to another. This will ensure that the marriages of coca farmers do not break up.
Behind the brothel is a rooster battle arena, on the wall of which twenty roosters are enclosed in cages to await the next day of betting.
The United States alone has consumed In Colombia, the war on drugs billions.
In Kokakylä, one wonders what would have happened if the money had been used to develop rural conditions and society.
US journalist living in Colombia for a long time and writing a book on the cocaine business Toby Muse in his book Kilo, takes a stand on the war on drugs that has lasted for more than 50 years.
He thinks it’s a war against humanity where more people have died than anyone can count.
What other public policy has failed as blatantly as the war on drugs – and will it continue nonetheless? Muse asks at the end of his book.
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