Colombia's coca wars | DW Documentary
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Published 2024-04-29
Armed groups seeking to expand coca cultivation are fighting a war for land, power, money, and influence. The main victims of this brutal rule by the guerrillas are civilians. But for some time now, the boom in cultivation has led to overproduction, leaving many farmers struggling to sell their coca. A report by Daniel Sager.
00:00 Intro
00:51 The coca farmer
02:58 Working the harvest instead of attending school
04:57 Women: victims of the coca wars
09:12 A glimmer of hope: a women's shelter
11:22 Palm oil as an alternative to coca cultivation
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All Comments (21)
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I hope that one day my country can provide better job opportunities for all those poor farmers. Colombia is such a vast and beautiful country with abundant natural resources, but the lack of investment and government support has pushed these people into illegal activities just to survive 😔
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Colombian Coffee is the BEST!!!!
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If this is true , why is Coke still £70 a grm ??
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I read cocoa 😢 😅
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Is there somewhere more info about the women's shelter she's organising?
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12 minutes video for such an important tragic issue - is tooooo short.
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In the occident they should show this kind of videos in schools to see that taking cocaine makes so much damage to Colombia. 😢😢
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What about Peru ? 🇵🇪 Peru’s growing capabilities are so much bigger and also more people are switching to other drugs like MDMa as well as synthetic Chinese online drugs 😢
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So demand for coca is falling?
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Wait, that's not chocolate! 😂
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My sincerest sympathies to the civilians that are caught in the middle, Claudia's story is very moving, and she deserves a lot of respect for sharing it with the world. May she find peace in her future life.
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Over production? send some here we don't have nearly enough.
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What a huge amount of love carries this woman within!. Unbelievable. God bless her and give her peace.
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Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
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Maybe if it was legal.
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relax with the ads please
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the spice will flow
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I wish my boss would pay me in coca paste
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😭😭 😭 we can't sell our cocaine
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Esta es una parte de la historia. Lo digo porque vivo aquí. En el 2016 el gobierno firmo un acuerdo de paz con la guerrilla. Uno de los puntos más importantes firmado fue el que hubiera una reforma agraria real y un proceso de inversión en la agricultura que fue destruida desde mediados de los años 90, por gobiernos neoliberales que abrieron las puertas sin ninguna restricción a la importación de alimentos. También es un punto clave lo que se llamó en la firma del acuerdo, la sustitución de cultivos. Con la llegada de Ivan Duque y su gobierno del 2018, el y su partido y la derecha extrema de este pais se dedicaron a destruir lo firmado e incumplieron estos compromisos.Incluso ahora se descubre que en su gobierno se robaron inmensas cantidades de dinero eros destinados a llevar a cabo lo firmado. Como consecuencia, en las zonas de cultivos de coca donde la guerrilla controlaba la producción y comercialización, el gobierno no entró con presencia estatal, programas, incentivos, capacitación y entonces los grupos narcos, los sectores que quisieron seguir en el cultivo de coca provocaron un caos que aún persiste. El gobierno actual, desde agosto de 2022 hace un esfuerzo inmenso de reforma agraria y de apoyo a la agricultura, al campesino pero la derecha extrema que ha gobernado el país por décadas, intenta por todos los métodos posible sabotear este cambio. Investiguen con mayor profundidad este tema.
