Peru's cocaine industry skyrockets

Peru, one of the world's leading producers and exporters of cocaine, has seen the illicit trade boom in recent years.

The industry's growth has prompted the country's government to plan an anti-drug campaign.

Some experts blame the authorities for not taking enough action to stop the drug trade, while poor coca farmers say the government's failure to help them economically has forced them to continue in the business.

Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman reports from Peru's southern Vrae Valley, the world's densest coca producing region, in the first of a two part special.

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[SketchyBack]

@danielvincentkelley How about you move there and show them how it's done, hero man! See how you like to live with no clean water or medicine. For you, "modernity" is a choice. For them it isn't. Also, practice what you preach and GTFO off YouTube.

[arturo903401]

sin demanda, no habria produccion...........q hacen los paises consumidores por parar eso en su propio pais..........

[BunnyHatJ]

@bobinieks

Cocaine goes to other countries (Particularly to the most developed countries) through the black market. And you need to chew thousands of coca leaves to get drugged. The paste needs to be mixed to produce cocaine, as you can see in the video.

[BunnyHatJ]

@MrPrinceRasta

They're FORCED to grow Coca, or else their lives are at stake. You can't just replace coca with another plant, such as potatoes... That way, nearby people will be FORCED to grow Coca in a nerby area. What they need is help from the state, roads, school, education, health, and security, because the drug dealers arrive in trucks and never hesitate to shoot, even military convoys.

[jimm787887]

i am proud of being Peruvian,, did she say aljazzerra,????, well after all, the anchor or journalist who was there in Peru had the opportunity to try a Peruvian precious product cocaine,,i bet she liked i just waould like to know how many times she snorted cocaine,,,i envy her,,,pure cocaine awesome..

[karesaboutnothin]

they also have good weed. check out my video to see!

[lobodesertico]

Big tits.

[danielvincentkelley]

@ufcpride93

That's true. Since prohibition was first imposed it's been a scam conducted by governments in cahoots with the organized criminal syndicates that then dominated delivery of those prohibited products to the consumers that choose such consumption. It's a fkn racket totally. Not only should it be recognized as legal, which it already is per the constitution (RIGHT to pursue happiness), the criminal conspirators who profiteered the drug war, should be locked up til dead.

[danielvincentkelley]

@bobinieks

I think the people there at the source are more likely to just chew the leaves which are a great source of calcium, vitamins and minerals and on which overdose is impossible. They'd burst their bellies with leaf matter before they'd overdose on the cocaine in the leaves.

[danielvincentkelley]

@slowpoke96Z28

1/100 Americans are IN JAIL. That's not a bad thing? That's a plan to protect Americans? To be sure 1/3 goes to jail in their lifetime, if the rate of incarceration continues to increase at it's present boom... A means to protect Americans? Bull sh*t.

[danielvincentkelley]

Do you think if SWAT had to carry 80 pound rucks through snake filled jungles that they'd be so hyped to shake down people for their agricultural products and hyped to murder people for brandishing golf clubs in defending their own homes? What they have there, that the cops aren't trying to arrest them for coca possession is a natural result of their having no roads. The minute there are roads, the politicians and the cops will find a reason to arrest all of them for nothing.

[danielvincentkelley]

@slowpoke96Z28

We don't use the roads that way? How do you suppose all the innocent people are brought to jail? All the people convicted of possessing agricultural products? How do they get brought to jail. When the pigs go shoot people defending their homes with golf clubs, that they go on SWAT raids, do they hump through the jungle carrying 80 pound rucks? Cuhmon. This is nonsense that the roads in America are not in military use. The police have been militarized.