Inside the deeply-rooted economy of cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia, and how it might undermine Colombia’s peace. Bram Ebus reports.
US-fuelled conflict between coca-growing farmers and the state is threatening to undermine Colombia’s recent peace settlement with Marxist guerrillas FARC.
The accord between President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC leaders, which ended over 50 years of civil war, committed the state to invest in long-neglected rural communities.
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