Farmers
Over 100,000 families in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia grow coca - not because they want to, but because they have no alternative. Armed buyers. No roads. No market for legal crops.
- Cartels dictate purchase prices. Negotiate, and you die.
- For decades, state helicopters sprayed fields with glyphosate - including food crops (banned 2015)
- Affected: mainly indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities without land titles