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we of mine because no one should have to make up your own mind. dw, may 4 mines the or the cutter too low forest is at the heart of the largest coca growing area in columbia. the country is producing more cocaine than ever before. and the drug is now columbia as the most important exploit. but in recent times, a new trend has emerged. while coca production is booming, many farmers are having trouble finding buyers. the reason over production the

the franco, my name is with the front cover. and i work in agriculture uh, bottom, if ever for me in the income i earn from coca allows me and my family to get what we need to live. only the essentials is him go. coca, why do i grow coca the rep as simple as a tomb? boat is known for being very large and remote in some way. you are far away from the main roads and highways that that'd be a kind of, it's much easier to transport 10 kilos of co pays out of via which fits into a small bag. if you all know that 20 or 30 loads of bananas, which take up much more space and when we met with your mug around in the,

the phone, there's just one step missing to turn this into a co pay that it's not yet been fried. that means it's still in pure kind of, can you throw it into a platinum, heated up and remove the water and all the impurities. so that when the input of 2 years ago, and this was worth 2000000, 750000 pesos. y'all about $640.00 euro and now it's worth nothing because nobody buys it anymore. this is ricky riley, my whole man know there are about 122130000 plants here and see until the 9th. i mean, we use them to make 30 or 40 kilos of coke a pace today. that's what inside that's about 75 to 80000000 pesos us around 17218000 euro since i'm una, the best with our but now i'm in danger of losing everything. i meant a bit of info because nobody is buying cook a paste right now. i can find the buy harvest and store it all,

but nobody buys it. i thought i was a bit of a 90 minute confident type of stuff, but again, you broke into i think this is the biggest crisis called the farmers and cut it to them. they'll have ever face to come in and it doesn't just affect caught the tomb, but in north sonton dere, but other parts of the country as well because it's been dealt with. but i'm thinking that advice me number. my name is jo, 100 b. i mean, when you get in and i'm 17 years old, know thing or i've been working here for about 2 years. but can you afford that? i went to school in venezuela and i can be to heck, but because of the economic crisis, i had to come here to work out that i had back then i lived with my grandparents and you know, well i just in person and my grandmother was getting more and more sick, the main thing my grandfather had an injured arm, but i think that's why my grandmother said i should come work here. okay, beth, and then be applied to find you are not as far as to help them out. i sometimes send the money i may harvesting cool guy strictly illegal when i think that sometimes government soldiers come to

a coke of farm and destroy the cook. a plants turning point and if you're working there, you get arrested here. they can even burn down the lab and destroy everything. can know they're going for you, john. john the 230. how much do you have you know? 31 kilogram. but i don't think it's we used to have lots of money and little co pay them. we now have lots of space, but no money left the money. people here work with coke up because it's cultivation accounts for 70

percent of economic output. awesome. everything here revolves around coca. the problem right now is selling it, which has a huge impact on trade. everything is affected and competitive stuff like that. like anything else, the level. and here's what coca does. it's still plan to have you have specific arms, groups are fighting for more land so that they can expand coca cultivation, the company. it's the reason behind all the conflict to cut black. if we were going to stop plantations and other things on these lands, nobody would be fighting over it. and then we the entire population. are the ones caught in the middle? mean i'm with the similar. my name is claudia. patricia minus they go rios, i'm working to help victims of sexual violence. maybe it is the, it's difficult to be

a woman in this area. and when that some of us have endured horrible things doesn't have to see. i'd be for it in this and you got in my case it was sexual violence because something and everything was kind of thing we live in constant fear in me is but as the up lives on, my personal experience is difficult because it said that you can't fathom how someone would think of using your body as a spoil of war. when they had a house where i felt with all my might, but i couldn't come up and they do it. when you have a gun to your head, it's very difficult to as easy to set up both mrs. work is there and is it also because my daughter was there in your business and i thought, what else can i do the tenant and then i had no strength left in this for the and then after i had fought for as long as i could,

they hit me in the face with one of the weapons they had with them go, i passed out and then regained consciousness. i was gone and came back. you're really there. anyway, i remember it. well, it'll work. but these are memories. i would like to erase the experience destroyed me emotionally sexually personally. and i mean, i wish we didn't have co kind of regions, but i can wait. okay, because if there was no coca, or we wouldn't have to live with all these dangers all the time and the

confrontations to be moved to since we wouldn't live in fear unless something more is the only one. i need to tell you something reason the winter, i've checked our finances and the situation is tom richards. i remember you print the cleaners, hardly have any work in them and that affects wage payment to you. but i think i meant that on the one hand to there's no more work so we can no longer harvest coke on the farm for the month they use to see what it looks like. what do we just have? yeah, and on the other day my we have to talk about my debt to you. remember the wages i still owe you for the last few weeks then? yeah. so make when to when i've already done the math and i think i'll have to pay you with a few grams of coca paste for, i don't know, but i'm with him. because as you know, the past couple of people, there's no cash right now due to the scene,

i must all or what i need. let's see if there's no more work because things are so hard. i don't want co pay still don't ever see you. i'd rather wait until you can sell co capacity. what really interested are you gave to failing then? yeah, i guess i do. and when you have cash to pay me to me, let me know what and i'll come back then to collect the money you'll. you'll angle ok, i've left you telling me when there's money or work i type and i'll come back. i can follow you with the if that and this is going to be my house is that this will be my little house. and i, there are 2 rooms here. one on the right is the bathrooms will buy new. now the other room is the living room, dining room and kitchen, satellite gourmet, or a local see network i when i,

that's impressive. one room i'll make available to victims who need a place to stay thing and some of the sales and what we can do here in this big dining room. so it's have conversations eloquently are active, but i'm about to tell them that they can talk about topics like empowerment them or so we can feel better because i've had it before, which is that just how it is a start. nice. it's a rebirth for me. and my own here in process, i mean to you if i could only manage to finish building this house for, for like one but it in there are not that many women in this area that is one way or another. i'll help them heal their wounds is if i could do that for myself, if we're bit by bit, then i can do that for them to the just the most with level 2, we've paid a deep price. not it says to do that. sometimes i wish the government was

a bit more humane. mazda line would help us more. you're not finding that i'm, we often feel of band and, and alone. and sometimes we get tired of it, which is the thing, is that the most of the lives and so do you think we have no choice but to carry on it? right. i mean was fun. i'm always with the hope that maybe one day last piece on that . but i must consider when we all up on the job because of this crisis of not being able to sell, poke a paste is dragged on so long. it's now become impossible for us to make a living from coca conservation lot, but it's selling palm oil. could be a good business. the big k will cover one. it requires only

a small investment that i mean. it's also easier to cultivate. that bottom home is cut every 4 to 6 months and it's harvested by the science even what i know, you don't need to be a slave to cultivation like you do with coca. i think that that would be the new danger. i see as a farmer is that palm cultivation will lead to the development of a monoculture give an i fear it will spread too much and degrade the soil as a result. and he says anywhere in the $7030.00 many farmers have switched from cocoa to palm oil production, but 5 wins by armed groups continues the new advances in medicine, custom tailored drugs are saving children, living cancer,

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