Will Peace Halt Colombia’s Coca Boom?

Mar 25, 2016 | Jim Wyss
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Daniel Duarte has thick, rough hands and the burned scalp of someone who has spent more than two decades under the Andean sky tending coca crops.

Toiling over a few acres in a remote northeastern part of Colombia, Duarte says the bright green shrub is the only plant that has allowed him to feed his family, even as he’s seen neighbors go broke trying to get their bulky yucca and plantain crops to market.