with for casters warning of more to come up next report on looks at how cocaine has become colombia is most important. exports you can get more use on our website, dw, dot com all youtube and social media channels. i am eddie micah junior station from the deal. we didn't force it on anyone, but we did sell them such products to isn't buy agreed in the 2000 star to bank engaged in various high risk business practice to search the bank was basically involved in every shady scandal in the banking sector. well, twice a race for ever higher process. if you made money,

there was pressure to make more money. and then the mind of a german institution, the georgia bank story may 2nd on dw, the the cutter to little for is does 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 exports. 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

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

that's the phone because there's just one step missing to turn this into coca pate, that it's not yet been fried. that means it's still in pure kind of dock. you throw it into a platinum and eat it up and remove the water and all the impurities. when i went back and put it 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. it is like you, i live in my home. busy so there are about 122130000 plants here and see until the 9th, i mean, we use them to make 30 or 40 kilos of coca pace today. that's why the incense about 75 to 80000000 pesos us around 17218000 euro since i'm una, the best of our but now i'm in danger of losing everything. i'm in a bit of info because nobody's buying coca paste right now. i can plan to buy harvest and store it all, but nobody buys. i thought that was a bit of

a 90 minute confident type of stuff, but again, you broke into i think this is the biggest crisis coke of farmers and cut it to them. they'll have that for 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 joe 100 visa when you get in and i'm 17 years old. know thing or i've been working here for about 2 years. what can you before that i went to school and venezuela not going to take but because of the economic crisis, i had to come here to work that, that i had back then i lived with my grandparents and you know, with that 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. but, and then be applied to find you are not as funds to help them out. i sometimes send the money i make harvesting cool guy strictly illegal. i want to think that sometimes government soldiers come to a coke of farm and destroy the cook of plants telling twins. and if you're working

there, you get arrested. he is. they can even burned down the lab and destroy everything. you know? they're going for you, john. john, the 230. how much do you have you know, the 31 kilogram. but i don't know, like the, as we used to have lots of money, a little co pay them. we now have lots of space, but no money left. the many people here work with coke up because it's cultivation accounts for 70 percent of economic output stuff. and everything here revolves around coca. the problem

right now is selling it, which has a huge impact on trade. everything is affected and commercial stuff like that. like anything else, the level. and here's what coca does, ok, it's the plans that kill us. armed groups are fighting for more land so that they can expand coca cultivation, the company. it's the reason behind all the conflict. cut black. if we were going cassava 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? my number is, my name is claudia. patricia minus a 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 whatnot. some of us have enjoyed horrible things,

just have to see how different in this and you got, in my case, it was sexual violence, go something and everything was going and then we live in constant fear. and me as but as the up lives on, my personal experience is difficult because it seems that you can't fathom how someone would think of using your body as a spoil of war when they're not. uh oh, what a thing i thought with on my mind. but i couldn't come up in they do it when you have a gun to your head, it's very difficult to are easy to set up both mrs. work is there and is it also because my daughter was there in your business and died? so what else can i do there, gerald and then for i had no strength left in this for the and then after i had fought for as long as i could put me, 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, that all right, 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 our region was back in. okay. because if there was no coca or we wouldn't have to live with all these dangers all the time. that the

confrontations, levine, we wouldn't live in fear unless something more of the i need to tell you something reason the when i've checked our finances and the situation is top of my time, i remember you print the containers, i'd 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 see, because we just have the end on the other demo, we have to talk about my debt to you. remember the wages i still owe you for the last few weeks then? yeah. so we'll make when to, when i've already done the math and i think i'll have to pay you with a few grams of coke of paste. but i don't know that i'm with it. because as you know, the past couple of people, there's no cash right now. to deal with for the me. see now i must all or what i knew,

let's see if there's no more work because things are so hard. i don't want co pay still unable to you. i'd rather wait until you can sell co capacity. although you missed that i gave tape and then you 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 ingle. oh god bless you. tell me when there's money or work, i type and i'll come back. i get all your windows the if the guy 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 like. we'll see now when i doesn't buy said 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 we can talk about topics like empowerment them so we can feel better use. i've had it before, which is that just how it is a start. nice. it's a rebirth for me in my own hand process. i mean, can you, if i could only manage to finish building this house for a fact like when we get 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 it were bit by bit, then i can do that for them to the just the most with level 2, we've paid us the price not at 53, like sometimes i wish the government was

a bit more humane. nozzle line would help us more. you're not finding that i'm, we often feel a band and, and alone. and sometimes we get tired of it, which it isn't, isn't the most along the lines. if you wanna do anything, we have no choice but to carry on it, right? i mean bundles, i'm always with the hope that maybe one day last piece, but, 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 down 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 kid will color one. it requires only

a small investment. that means it's also easier to cultivate. that bottom home is cut every 4 to 6 months and it's harvested by the science people. what i mean, you don't need to be a slave to cultivation like you do with coca. i think them and then they will come with the new danger. i see as a farmer is that palm cultivation will lead to the development of a monoculture coming in from i fear it will spread too much and degrade the soil as a result. and these are the 330, so many farmers have switched from cocoa to palm oil production. but 5 wins by arm to groups, continues the looking for the best fit for us to

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