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Colombia’s Drug Growers Get Organized

Jan 27, 2017 | 09:00 GMT

Colombia’s Drug Growers Get Organized
Coca growing is a major economic activity in Colombia's rural hinterlands and, unlike in Peru and Bolivia, most of it is used to produce cocaine.

(MAURICIO DUENAS/AFP/Getty Images)

Summary

After decades of operating outside the law, Colombia's largest insurgency is coming in from the cold. The government in Bogota is racing against the clock to implement its peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), as the smaller National Liberation Army (ELN) jockeys for a deal of its own. Meanwhile, other criminal groups in the country are taking heed of the changes unfolding, particularly those that produce the drugs underpinning Colombia's thriving black-market economy. 

After decades of operating outside the law, Colombia's largest insurgency is coming in from the cold. The government in Bogota is racing against the clock to implement its peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), as the smaller National Liberation Army (ELN) jockeys for a deal of its own. Meanwhile, other criminal groups in the country are taking heed of the changes unfolding, particularly those that produce the drugs underpinning Colombia's thriving black-market economy. ...

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