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a lot of our culture history. all their travel extremely worth a visit. the or the cutter to little forest is at the heart of the largest cocoa 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 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 except as well man and the income i earn from coca allows me and my family to get what we need to live. only the essentials, so to cause him go. coca, why do i grow coca the bicycle that he got? that 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 one of them in which your mug around in the,

that's the phone because 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 removed 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. 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 coca pace today. that's why the incense about 75 to 80000000 pesos us around 17218000 euro since i'm una the best when i order. 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 off, but nobody buys it. i thought i was a bit or not even a competent 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 cotter 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 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 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. bit and then be applied to find you are not as funds to help them out. i sometimes send the money. i mean, harvesting crow guys strictly illegal. i want to think that sometimes government soldiers come to a coke of farm and destroy the cook of plants tending twins. and if you're working there, you get arrested. he is,

they can even burned down the lab and destroy everything count enough they're going for you, john john, the 230, how much do you have, you know, the. busy 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 off and everything here revolves around coca. the problem right now is selling it, which has

a huge impact on trade. everything is affected and commenced and stuff like that. like anything else, the level and here's what coca does, ok, it's still plan to kill us if you have specific arms. groups are fighting for more land so that they can expand corporate cultivation the company. it's the reason behind all the conflict and 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 whatnot. some of us have enjoyed horrible things. that's of the,

i diffident this and you got in my case it was sexual violence because something and everything was going and then we live in constant fear. and me is, but it has to be up with 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 winds. and oh, where i fault with all my might, but i couldn't come up into your ink when you haven't gotten to your head. it's very difficult. are easy to set up both mrs. work is there and this is also because my daughter was there in your business and i thought what else can i do? the tenant and then for i had no strength left in this for the and then after i had fought for as long as i could mean 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, that all right, but these are memories. i would like to erase the consumers this experience destroyed me emotionally, sexually personally. and i mean, i wish we didn't have coke on our regions, but i can 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, levine for sense, we wouldn't live in fear unless something more comfortable for them. and

i need to tell you something we can do with the i've checked our finances and the situation is tough, right? to the right number. you print, they like working like 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 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. 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 missed on or what i need to 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 capacity. what we're really interested are you gave tape out 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. i get all of 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 bathroom 0 by new. now, the other rooms, the living room, dining room, and kitchen, satellite gourmet or a like will say network when night doesn't buy said one room i'll make available to victims who need

a place to stay. and then some of the sales and what we can do here in this big dining room. so it's have conversations, spell it for me or i could, but i'm about to tell them that they can talk about topics like empowerment them so we can feel better. most 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 can you if i could only manage to finish building this house? i guess i felt like when we get in there, 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 a bit by bit, then i can do that for them to the just the most with level. what we've paid is the price not it says to do that. sometimes i wish the government was a bit more humane. mazda line would help us more. you know,

something that i'm, we often feel of band and, and alone. and sometimes we get tired of it, which it isn't, isn't the most of the lives a furnace? do you think we have no choice but to carry on the bundles of your employees with the hope that may be 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, co pays does drag down so long. it will 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 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 these are the 330 a many farmers have switched from cocoa to palm oil production, but 5 wins by armed groups continues the, so that's the best and the middle. one of the truth

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