Colombia: Coca's Legacy in Colombia: Empowering and Cursing Local Communities

Mar 4, 2024 | María Alejandra Trujillo, BNN Breaking
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Colombia's lush landscapes are paradoxically the cradle of both empowerment and curse, largely due to coca cultivation. In the southern state of Putumayo, a woman named Ana (a pseudonym for safety reasons) embodies this dichotomy, having found liberation through coca farming for her family, yet simultaneously cursed by the cocaine trade's dark underbelly, facing death threats from various criminal factions.