the, the, or the color 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 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 and they said this one man, the income i earned from coca, allows me and my family to get what we need to live. only the essential sort of cuz him go coca, why do i grow? coca do rep as simple as you cut that 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 kind of thing. 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,

in this one, there's just one step missing to turn this into co pay that it's not yet been fried . that means it's still in your kind of, can you throw it in to apply and heat it up and remove the water and all the impurities. so that when i put in 2 years ago, and this was worth 2000000, 750000 pesos, y'all about 640 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 at one end 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 co pays right now. if i can find my harvest and store it off, 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 called the 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 b, i me. so when you get in and i'm 17 years old, know thing going? i've been working here for about 2 years. what can you afford 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 grand parents 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 as 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 here. 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 we used to have lots of money, a 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 in gomez 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 some armed groups, are fighting for more land so that they can expand coca cultivation, the company. it's the reason behind all the conflict to couple of if we were going to solve 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 what are some of us have enjoyed horrible things that's we'll see. you at the foot in this and you got in my case it was sexual violence

because something and everything was gone and then we live in constant fear. and if, 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 wins. and oh, where i fought with all my might, but i couldn't come up into your ink when you have a gun 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 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 hook 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 it'll, but these are memories. i would like to erase the experience destroyed me and went to motion of the sexually personally. and i mean, i wish we didn't have co kind, our region was clinic and weird. 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 in the winter. i've checked our finances and the situation is tough. i time i remember you print, they like working like hardly have any work in them 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 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 mad when to, when i've already done the man 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 to deal with for the me. see now i must all part of what i knew. 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. i'd rather wait until you can sell co capacity or really in this that 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. 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 bathrooms, will buy new. now the other room is the living room, dining room and kitchen satellite gomez, or a local scene. our when night 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 they can talk about topics like empowerment them or so we can feel better. so kind of poor, which is that is how it is a start. nice. it's a rebirth for me in my own hand process. i mean to 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 we're 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. mazda 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 within a few months along the lines. and so do you think we have no choice but to carry on it? right. i mean, i'm a little waste 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 k will cover 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 i guess i'm going from. i fear it will spread too much integrate 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 armed groups, continues. the people are fighting over water in the name, the struggle has increasingly painted herders against farmers. everyone needs this

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