Drug Wars - Columbia

June 1995
Colombia's rural peasants are caught in a savage drugs war, forced to produce narcotics through economic despair. We investigate this deadly battle, with daring access to major and minor players and exclusive archive footage. Following the capture of the Cali cocaine 'cartel' leader, a retaliation bomb is detonated in Medellin. Removing Cali cartel leaders has done nothing to halt the drug trade. In Cali, 'Pepe', a drug trafficker, makes $4,000 a month while a slum family tells the tragic story of their cocaine-courier father. Focusing on the government's renewed fight against drugs under threat of US sanctions, we document the strong-arm tactics of both the army and guerrilla groups. Bloodstained bodies of 13 peasant growers are lined up at a military base - the army dismisses them as vermin. In the fields of a typical coca campesino, protected by guerrilla units, growers process their haul. Evidence of government fumigation of illicit crops which, in turn, encourages farmers to double their cultivation. The result is massive deforestation. Indigenous Indians have little hope in the escalating feud ravaging Colombia.

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[EAMR262]

Good GOD!!!

Its ColOmbia, not fucking columbia!!!

[15ips]

@Zua0man Got a problem with that? Grow up.

[TheIceman515069]

one word...PATHETIC! i understand alot of people are going to criticize me for saying this about their beautiful, precious Colombia, but i have been there, i have seen things first hand, and there is absolutely NO proper military, police, public official or ANY kind of real protection for the people! police and immigration officials are FULLY aware of smuggling that goes on because they are part of it! money can buy anything in that country and if you have it, you can get away with ANYTHING!

[tcekilla2]

plane to europe. he does this on a weekly basis and he smuggles fucking kilo's and kilo's of cocaine into europe, america, canada and many other places and he has been doing it for around 12 years. anyone seen it? if so, where can i watch it again? thanks. it was really interesting.

[tcekilla2]

i saw a program called drug wars (i think) on a random station quite while ago and am trying to find it on here. if anyone knows what i mean. on the program i saw, about half way through. a guy from colombia or mexico and he was a cocaine smuggler. it fuzzed his face out obviously but he was shown on tv putting coke in capsules and putting something else around the capsules then putting a coat of wax over each capsule and then swallowing them. he swallowed around 120 capsules and then got the

[bagoodtube]

illegal plants ????

[elspiclatino]

@whoseaaron Learn grammar, then repeat that please!

[mavagiraldo]

@belacw yees I speak english and I also speak italian and french, colombia is not like it is shown in the video. it is full of nice and kind people. I dont know who the fuck did this video but he is completely wrong.

[MrShawnp26]

Columbia is a run down 3rd world shit hole because of drug cartels