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with one daring goals to help smart nature. the more likes watching it on youtube, dw documentary, the or the cutter to little 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 export. but in recent times, a new trend has a merge. 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, but on the service, well man, the income i earn from coca allows me and my family to get what we need to live. only the essentials are cuz hmo coca, why do i grow coca the bicycle? i because the tomb boat is known for being very large and remote too suddenly. you are far away from the main roads and highways and that'd 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 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 your kind of, you throw it into a platinum, heated up and removed the water and all the impurities for 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 home. busy there are about 122130000 plants here and see until the 9th, i mean, we used to make 30 or 40 kilos of coke and paste that. i went into that that's about 75 to 80000000 pesos us around 17218000 euro since i'm una, best when i order. 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'm planning to buy harvest in store at 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 that for face to come in and it doesn't just affect the cost of tune, but in north sonton dere, but other parts of the country as well. because he's been there with the advice number. my name is joe 100 visa and 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 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, 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, best 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 think it's we used to have lots of money, a little cold up and then 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 off and everything here revolves around coca. the problem right

now is selling it, which has a huge impact on trade. everything is affected income as well. stuff like that, like anything else, the level and here's what coca does, ok, it's still plan to kill us. armed groups are fighting for more land so that they can expand coca cultivation by a conflict. it's the reason behind all the conflict and to cut black. if we were going costanza 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 police, emma. my name is claudia. patricia. mine is 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 to have to see. i'd be for it in this, in gas, in my case,

it was sexual violence because something and everything was going and then we live in constant fear in 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, wins and a half hours where i thought 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 with mrs. work is this, it also because my daughter was there in your business and i thought, what else can i do? the general the and then for i had no strength left in this for this. and then after i had fought for as long as i could for 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 nearly labour. labour, i remember it, well, i don't know, but these are memories i would like to erase the is this, this experience destroyed me emotionally, sexually personally and i mean, i wish we didn't have coke on our regions for they're getting rid of. okay. because if there was no coca, or we wouldn't have to live with all these dangers all the time. and the confrontations give you a sense, we wouldn't live in fear unless something more comfortable for them. and

i need to tell you something we spend the winter. i've checked our finances and the situation is tough, right? to the right number. you print that like like, you know, like hardly have any work in the month and that effects 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 it was we just had the, 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 went to glen. i've already done the math and i think i'll have to pay you with a few grams of coke. a 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. deal with this. me see no, you must all or what i need. let's see if there's no more work because things are so hard. i don't want color paste. you don't ever see. i'd rather wait until you

can sell capacity. what really understood i gave tape and then you i guess a deal 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 and i get all of your windows the if 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 bathroom 0. by new. now, the other room is the living room, dining room and kitchen, satellite lane or a local scene. i work 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 let's have conversation, spell it for me or i could, but i'm about to tell them that we can talk about topics like empowerment them so we can feel better. most i've had it before which is that is how it is a start. nice. it's a rebirth for me and my own here in process. i mean, can you, if i could only manage to finish building this house, got so so i can bring it in there, not that many women in this area, or if 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 is the price not at $50.00. so, you know, sometimes i wish the government was a bit more humane. mazda one 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. the 1st su henry says we have no choice but to carry on it, right? i mean, my son was like, i'm always with the hope that maybe one day last piece. but i must consider when we all up on the job because of this graces of not being able to sell, co pays does drag down so long. it will 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 amino 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 know, you don't need to be a slave to cultivation like you do with coca. i have to come in and compete with them. one of the new danger i see as a farmer is that palm cultivation will lead to the development of a monoculture give them i fear it will spread too much and degrade the soil as a result. and these are the items that we thought it. a many farmers have switched from cocoa to palm oil production, but 5 wins by arm to groups continues the so that's the base and the middle. one of the 2, something is in boston of the core is addition from the

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