Panorama - Cocaine: Alex James in Colombia 3/3

[RuskoKain]

Goat Cheese. :-)

[RuskoKain]

& Alex says: It smells even worse than strong cheese, God-damn he`s funny !

[rocksinoo]

Tattoo in the face = gang. I can't get why those gangsters keep on writting on their face "IM A FUCKING GANGSTER" -.-

[Valdelm360]

if you enjoyed this watch The Cocaine Cowboys, its a very good documentary about the cocaine trade in Miami in the 80's

[stickyfingers070]

said said ,blablablaabla !! but tonight y'all forget this, and call the dope man again !

you JUNKIES!

[bcaulf]

This sort of propaganda effort is doomed to failure. One reason is the fundamental lack of logic in the argument. The claim is made that cocaine use is the cause of violence in Colombia. But the mere use of a drug is not sufficient to produce violence. It is the attempt to ban the drug that results in violence. Legalization would be the obvious way to address the quite real problem of violent acts committed by, and against, drug mafias.

[EkamSat1]

@bcaulf Regular cocaine use actually can make you a lot more aggressive as a person, but that's just my opinion. I'm not an aggressive person normally.

[hlmjwensink]

Yes, it is a sad business, plan Colombia doesn't work.  The war against drugs is also business, tons of people are making money out of it. The only way out of it is controlled legalisation all over the world, and strong economic support for Colombia, so the middle class can grow. I hope that there will be Peace in Colombia one day. Such a beautiful country, such beautiful people. This Nation is struggeling to long. God bless you...Colombia(!)

[dwaynedibbly]

ppl are too selfish to give a shit. They are more interested in stroking their egos (I do not count myself as an exception). Watching this I think it's a 'shame and all' but still doesnt provoke an emotional reaction. I know most people are much less empathic than me so it makes no diff. Gotta change the system, legalisation I guess would be the only realiztic thing that would stop this.

[intertubulater]

He went from hahhhd drooogs to soft cheese.

[gts5001]

FI for anyone thinking about smuggling. At cartagena airport I was patted down and had my bag searched just to get in line for the check in counter, then entering the gate area patted down and sent through a metal detector, then got my bag searched again before being sent to a room, there I had to be xrayed, then I had to answer a couple questions to the immigration man before being patted down again and allowed to wait at the gate. walking onto the flight line there were soldiers liningtheway

[ripper6]

Those tattoos pretty much guarantee that dude is getting searched at the airport lol

[dwaynedibbly]

@ripper6 lol good point. that dude seemed like a hopeless redneck

[bubs5898]

The poor will always make it. They are only making a living after all! Its us (mainly in the west) that consume it who are to blame!

[marorococa]

Coke sucks. If you want a stimulant, just take some md, faaaar healthier than this shit.

[addy1231]

@marorococa MD? r u joking ya very healthy indeed, just 30 calories and very natural. WTF

[marorococa]

@addy1231 no im not joking. you obviously dont know your drugs. ive only ever taken mdma twice, and its changed my life. that was a year ago.

[addy1231]

@marorococa how it changed ur life? I dont know and i dont want to know about drugs mate

[marorococa]

@addy1231 you dont want to know.... well there's your answer so. 

[GanzLONDON]

05:15 Right there one AMERICAN Puppet walking. I bet you can't see the strings !

[lgunny89]

rather FUCK A HORSES ASS HOLE

[Moerakski]

you do not take it with you when you want to ship it, that is so ignorant you deserve to get caught

container ships and shizzle that tha way

[socafil34202]

dificil realidad

[r86]

what's the name of the song during the prison section?

[DAN0D2]

lip read what he says at 7:16

[SuperJordanmay]

i love to have his job alll that cheap cocaine amazing

[pjicleanair420]

yea all that cement, acid, and kerosene seems  very nice

[luckiswhathappens]

I'm getting bad timing on the audio track.

[sophieyates]

love Alex James

[ThePostShit]

if you would live here u wouldnt suport him fucking Rat!!!!

[HardBodyNyC]

The only good thing that comes from Colombia is coffee, cocaine, emeralds and a above average space program.

[pfcsusczynski]

space program ????????????

[HardBodyNyC]

Yes, Colombia has a fair amount of Astronauts, considering there not Russia or America. No South American country can compare to Colombia in terms of space expedition, space voyage and knowledge of astro physics.

For example George Zamka .

[HardBodyNyC]

Colombian women are not better than any other women.

[cdwordsworth26]

I'd like to present you with some of my cheese if I may. WTF

[DeSmurfen125]

Have you seen the Cheese diaries then you should remember it!! HAHAAH!! =D

[kingofireland32]

lmfao

[BagualdeTorres]

soy brasileño y lamento mucho que un país tan hermoso como Colombia tenga una imagen negativa...les digo q en mi país aún hay unos pendejos que piensan que en Colombia solamente hay traquetos y adictos a esa vaina de mierda.........yo estuve en Inglaterra una vez y les digo que es una sociedad estúpida, chamos que no tiene fuerzas suficientes para afrontar a sus problemas diariamente y se volcan en la adicción.....lo mismo pasa acá en Brasil, lleno de gomelos adictos .

[BagualdeTorres]

cocaine production will be stopped as long as there are no druggies anymore.

the worst country is that one which produces drugs......the worst one is that one which has a lot of consumers....for example, england, brazil, usa, etc.

whoever sniffs cocaine and takes other drugs is a loser and weak.....that kind of weak cunt who cannot face everyday bad things.

[billy122211]

i face everyday bad things then i snort coke on the weekend so i can get my fuck on. Anyway who is to say that taking drugs is bad, as if u listen to every law ever made.

[pfccaleb]

i agree with you, people bad mouth all these drugs and they dont even know what they are

[billy122211]

shut up u fucking junkie

[slamminhole69]

cocaine is the reason i don't have a cousin anymore, it's a terrible fucking drug

[hellodare400]

Its the reason why i wasnt born:-(

[ImperialGuardofIran]

@hellodare400 seriously? LOL don't be unhappy

[bobjustman]

My first comment ever on youtube.

Never felt the urge before. But this is just too much.

Alex James is a bass player, he may be clever and fun for a conversationl, but here he is completely and utterly out of his depth.

He manages to blunder every single interview and then adding insult to injury by personal comments such as comparing himself, a millionaire, to shoeless columbian farmers. And in the process completely negating the whole program and its subject.

Panorama is a good show though

[phuckfacedan]

The person interviewing..

Looks like he got some lines of that stuff hah

[celebrius]

bad interviewer...

[nojuegesverbo]

this guys hair is ridiculous hahah

[BobCassidy]

Im glad someone said it. Looks like a muppet.

[danibeto10]

As a Colombian its quite hard to accept this is our reality, and I'm glad a former rock star addict came here... At least he didn't do the usual hollywood crap assuming my country is a northern mexico jungle town. But still doesnt show what Colombia is for real, but thats because of the documentary nature. I've always wondered... why we are the bad guys for produce it... but for the rest of the world is cool to consume?

[DavithRedway]

You're right, through news and tv people won't ever know what Colombia really is, and thanks to all the bad things they hear about Colombia, they are too scared to come and see the reality by themselves.

[odinmp5]

yeah. we colombians are always the bad ones, .. recently my working contract was canceled because having a colombian on the workplace was not safe ,acording to the insurance company. what they didnt know is that half of my coworkers were cocaine sniffers, but they hold european passports.

[amalt37]

@danibeto10 I don't think you guys are bad for producing it. I think the government is wrong to keep it illegal when obviously people want it of their own free will. Adults should be able to choose for themselves whether they want to take it or not. If the governments allowed it to be legal the violence would end. President Uribe lives in a very nice house.

[EkamSat1]

@amalt37 Do you think the producers will give up their illegal trade without a fight in order to pay taxes for production & all that?

[seognam]

alex looked toey,craving,tested when the dealer started racking/lining up the pure dope two feet from him!poor guy!brave. also i wonder if the cocaine rebels handspray the legit farmers crops to pull them back in and stop the transition to banana,soy crops?whats the spraying doing to the forest as well?k

[pasckalina]

proceso de extracion de cocaina de la hoja de coca...

Hojas de Coca + (Carbonato potásico ó cemento + Kerosene ó gasolina)= Extracto de Coca + (Agua fria + Ácido Sulfúrico)= Pasta Base de Cocaína + (Ácido sulfúrico + Amoníaco)= Pasta Lavada o Sulfato de Cocaína + (Acetona o eter + Ácido Clorhídrico + Alcohol)= Clorhidrato de Cocaína o merca + (Bicarbonato sódico)= Free Base o Crack

[cinecicleta]

Es lo ironico de esta guerra contra las drogas en Colombia. La mayoria de estos quimicos e insumos NO son producidos en el pais, son importados desde Alemania y EEUU en su mayoria. Monsanto que es el encargado de producir el Round Up para la erradicacion, tabien es productor de fertilizantes que los cultivadores de coca utilizan. Por que en lugar de atacar a los cultivadores no atacan o almenos investigan a donde paran las importaciones de estos quimicos que entran al pais para la produccion.

[pasckalina]

De esta manera se le conoce al clorhidrato de cocaína pasta base pasta base de cocaina pasta paco bazuco base salta pecoso mono tabaco fuerte marciano al tabaco queso quesillo plastilina blanca

[BagualdeIrai]

the worst country is not that one who produces drugs but the countries which let drugs enter...not only England is full of drugies....most Brazilians usually laugh at poor Colombians because of this issue but Brazil responds for the second highest cocaine consumption in the world...shameful

I watched this documentary last night on a Brazilian cable TV...

At least, Alvaro Uribe knows to speak English, regardless of his pronounciation...such a polite man.

[DisidenciaTricolor]

jaja payaso

[cyanspeaker]

pity the audio is out of sync with the video, but otherwise great!

[losarman]

I wish the BBC would spell Colombia correctly when they are bylining their president.

Also to say that you respect Uribe is to say that you respect his treatmentof workers in the Colombia. It is so bad that even the US govt won´t do business with him

[liamlord]

George W. Bush's great grandfather was the chief shareholder of the first Coca Cola bottling plant in Bogota.

[battybat09]

completely off topic but nonetheless a useless fact

[domdadomdom]

So, a rapist can say "I've given up raping girls now cos I've seen the damage it's done to my victims." Patronising bollocks, Alex. To think I respected you.

[Rorxz]

He gave up taking drugs, not because of this, but by a moral choice he made years before. This was purely to educate. Giving up taking drugs and giving up "raping girls" are entirely different things - but were a rapist to see the damage done and then be truley sorry for what he had done and repentant...is that not okay?

[emilysoppet33]

I couldn't agree more. How could anyone compare taking drugs to raping someone. Infront of you you are visibly harming someone, and on the other side you are apparently only harming yourself.

This film is educating people and I champion Alex for what he has donw, and having the courage to go out to Colombia, especially having read his book.

[domdadomdom]

Sorry, rubbish and unthinking comparison. I should be taken out and shot now I've seen what I wrote.

[thebrainsbehind]

I really don't see a similarity in the decision of a rapist going out to rape someone and an otherwise law-abiding person making a phone call to meet a guy to get some coke to do at a party. There's a massive difference in the distance between the act and the suffering, with coke it mostly happens thousands of miles away.

I think most people don't think for a moment about the violent, harmful systems they support when buying coke. I don't find it patronising to get a bit of insight into that.

[thebrainsbehind]

...that was a reply to domdadomdom by the way! Endd up in the wrong place.

[angelusgutmann]

It would be very important to clear out to mr. James that Uribe is not tough to "rebels". He's only tough to Farc and ELN, paramilitary forces are realted to him, he can't go against his own party, else he can be easily killed. The members of his political party, his family and his advisors are related to paramilitary forces and drugtraffickers. It's very sad to see that Uribe and his government are payed attention to by the BBC and not the rest of the people who also have another point of view.

[angelusgutmann]

Legalización, ése es el único camino. Cuando se vuelva legal, pues ya no tendremos que invertir miles de millones del presupuesto nacional para combatir un mercado que sería legal. Pero es que para qué legalizarla si el comercio de armas se dispara con conflictos internos en pequeños países como el nuestro? Complicado acabar la guerra cuando los intereses primordiales no son el bienestar de la gente, sino el lucro por encima de cualquier cosa...

[donostiarra82]

I am colombian and this is true, hay que para el consumo de la coca, para que haya paz en colombia, y sino se para el consumo entonces legalizar las drogas.

good job alex.

[donostiarra82]

I am colombian and this is true, hay que para el consumo de la coca, para que haya paz en colombia, y sino se para el consumo entonces legalizar las drogas.

good job alex.

[donostiarra82]

I am colombian and this is true, hay que para el consumo de la coca, para que haya paz en colombia, y sino se para el consumo entonces legalizar las drogas.

good job alex.

[donostiarra82]

I am colombian and this is true, hay que para el consumo de la coca, para que haya paz en colombia, y sino se para el consumo entonces legalizar las drogas.

good job alex.

[juangui11ermo]

bullshit, I am from Colombia

[Tuluz8]

good work Alex James!!

[camj256]

very well done.