Colombia: Searching for an Alternative to Coca

Aug 14, 2017 | Camilo Mejia and Steven Cohen, BBC
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In the remote region of Putumayo in southern Colombia, the economy depends almost entirely on one thing: coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine. Colombia's government wants to change this, as part of the peace deal it reached with the country's left-wing rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia last year. It will not be an easy task.