![]() The Colombian cocaine trade has been tangled up in the country's guerrilla wars for decades: FARC fights the government, the government fights FARC, and the right-wing paramilitaries fight FARC on the government's behalf with an extra measure of savagery. She could get him a job working for FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Colombia's Marxist-Leninist guerrilla army), which was better than working for the right-wing paramilitaries.ĭiego is not his real name, and he's currently living in a different Latin American country-otherwise, he said, he wouldn't be talking to me. He was broke-everybody was broke-but his grandmother knew where he could earn some money: He could go work the coca plantations in the hinterlands like she had. Diego was 23 years old, a poor Colombian living in a poor section of Cali, when his girlfriend had the baby. ![]()
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