wrong answer, the wrong people. why did the us government suddenly shut down project cassandra in 2016? 03 pod documentary series. i'm asking has paula dot may 4th on d, w. 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 woman and the income i earned 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 bicycle that 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'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. yeah . can you throw it into a platinum, heated up and remove 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 them to make 30 or 40 kilos of coca, paste that. i have one inside 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 meant a bit of info because nobody is buying coca paste right now. i can plan 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 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 and when you get in and i'm 17 years old, new 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, 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, beth, and then be applied to find you are not as far as to help them out. i sometimes send the money. i may harvesting cool guy strictly illegal when i think sometimes

government soldiers come to a cook 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. no they're going for you john. john the 230. how much do you have you know the 31 kilogram. but i don't know the we used to have lots of money and 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 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. 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, the number that the consumer? my name is claudia. patricia might as they go rios, i'm, 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. i didn't this and you got in my case it was sexual violence because something meant everything was going and then we live in constant fear in me as but it has 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 they're not uh oh, where i thought with all my might, but i couldn't come up in they do it when you have a gun to your head, it's very difficult put 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 10th and then i had no strength left in this for the and then after i had thought for as long as i could for me,

they hit me in the face with one of the weapons they had with them because i passed out and then regained consciousness, i was gone and came back. you're really there. anyway, i remember that. well, it'll love it, but these are memories. i would like to erase the consumers this experience destroyed me through the motion of the sexually personally and i mean, i wish we didn't have coke on our regions, but 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 in the confrontations,

levine to sense we wouldn't live in fear unless something more of the i need to tell you something. reason the winter, i've checked our finances and the situation is tough, right? to the right number. you print the 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 it was we just had. yeah. and on the other day my we have to talk about my debt to you know, say minus 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 it. 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 knew. let's see if there is 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 really interested are you gave to failing then? yeah, 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 when i get off the window 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 gomez or a local scene our night. that's impressive. 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 backed up, but i'm about to tell them that we can talk about topics like empowerment and then with so we can feel better. so 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 thank you. if i could only manage to finish building this house for, for like one, bring it 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 of the most with level. what we've paid is the price, not it since these, you know,

sometimes i wish the government was a bit more humane. mazda line would help us more, you know, so i knew that i'm, we often feel of band and, and alone. and sometimes we get tired of it, which it doesn't affect the most of the lives a furnace. do you think we have no choice but to carry on? and we don't mean bundles like i'm a little ways with the hope that maybe one day last piece. but i must consider when we are 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 could be the new danger. i see as a farmer is that palm cultivation will lead to the development of a mano culture condensed, and i fear it will spread too much and degrade the soil as a result. and these are the so many farmers have switched from cocoa to palm oil production, but 5 wins by armed groups continues the new advances in medicine,

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