Colombian president aims to reduce drug violence and weaken rebels by paying farmers to switch crops
Colombian President Gustavo Petro wants to reduce coca planting in a northeastern region rattled by rebel attacks by paying ...
Indigenous groups demand coca leaves be legalized. Will the world listen?
Colombia's president says cocaine is "no worse" than whiskey as global efforts to "decolonize" the plant spread ...
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Colombia calls for UN to pull cocaine's main ingredient from its 'harmful substances list' after president said the drug 'is no worse than whiskey'
Cocaine is no worse than whiskey,' he added ... and finding alternative incomes for coca farmers. Part of this change has seen him trying to make peace with all of the armed groups that are ...
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Colombian president aims to reduce drug violence and weaken rebels by paying farmers to switch crops
The region has approximately 55,000 hectares of coca crops and is one of Colombia's main producers of cocaine. Petro said farmers in Catatumbo will eradicate their coca plantings voluntarily and ...