The War on Drugs

Colombia’s Cocaine Civil War (2022x16)

Ημερομηνία προβολής: Νοέ 15, 2022

For over 50 years, Colombia has been ravaged by a brutal civil war – involving communist guerrillas, right-wing death squads and the Colombian state all fighting a messy and violent struggle for control of the country. And this decades-long conflict has largely been financed by Colombia’s multi-billion dollar cocaine economy. This is how half a century of aggressive drug prohibition – and the booming global cocaine market – have prolonged and worsened Colombia’s bloody civil war.