audrey cassandra, in 2016 03 pod documentary series unmasking has paula dot may, 4th on dw, the or 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 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

de franco. my name is with the front cover. and i work in agriculture, but i'm a service woman. the income i earned from coca allows me and my family to get what we need to live. only the essential so to cause him go. coca, why do i grow coca the rep? as simple as 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, and that'd be a kind of a bad. it's much easier to transport 10 kilos of co pays via which fits into a small bag fuel than 20 or 30 loads of bananas. which take up much more space and one moment which was around in the,

in the process. 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, can you throw it into a platinum and eat it up and remove the water and all the impurities. when i went back and put in 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 used to make 30 or 40 kilos of coca, paste that. i went into that that's 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'm in a bit of info because nobody's buying coca 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 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 it's been dealt with. but i'm thinking that advice me number. my name is joe 100 visa and when you get 10 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 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, we'll adjust 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 may harvesting cool guy strictly illegal when i think that sometimes the 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. they can even burn down the lab and destroy everything. you 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 so we used to have lots of money and little co pay them. we now have lots of pays, 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 and stuff like that. like anything else in the office and here's what coca does. it's still plan to 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 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. 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. that's of the defendant, this and you guys,

in my case it was sexual violence because something and everything was gone and then we live in constant fear in me as 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's and i was where i fault with all my mind, but i couldn't come up in they do it when you haven't gotten to your head, it's very difficult. is easy to set up with mrs. work is there and is it also because my daughter was there in your business and died? so 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 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 nearly labour. labour, i remember it, well, i don't know, but these are memories. i would like to a recent chair for the reasons you miss this experience, destroyed me emotionally, sexually personally. and i mean, i wish we didn't have co kind of regions for the i can win. okay, because if there was no coca, or we wouldn't have to live with all these dangers all the time and the confrontations between us and we wouldn't be live in fear unless something more of

the i need to tell you something in the winter. i've checked our finances and the situation is tough, which 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 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. but i don't know that i'm with him. because as you know, the past couple of people, there's no cash right now deal with this. 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

to pay still unable to you. i'd rather wait until you can sell co capacity. although you missed that i gave tape and 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 ingle. oh, god bless you. tell me when there's money or work, i type and i'll come back when i get off the window the if the guy is going to be my house is this, 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 see network i when i, that's impressive. when we 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, fella, call me or back, but i'm about to tell them that we can talk about topics like empowerment in them so we can feel better. so i kind of pull which is that is how it is a start. nice. it's a rebirth for me in my own here in process. i mean can you, if i could only manage to finish building this house for a fact like when we get 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 which we've paid is the price not it says, 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 abandoned and alone. and sometimes we get tired of it, which is the most along the lines. the furnace. do is 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 but i must consider when we all up on the job because of this crisis of not being able to sell coke. a paste is dragged 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 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 that that could be the new danger. i see as a farmer is that palm cultivation will lead to the development of a monoculture given 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 amount of let me think i got stuck on a piece of it was somebody who knew,

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