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Herve BAR

Colombia's Cocaine Canyon: The Guerrilla Turf Impeding Peace

A member of the Carlos Patino Front patrols alongside coca crops in Micay Canyon, a mountainous area and guerilla stronghold in southwestern Colombia (Credit: AFP)

Bright green coca plantations blanket the mountains along the narrow Micay canyon, the heartland of Colombia's holdout guerrillas who rule their fiefdom like a mini-state.

Along dirt roads, in makeshift laboratories, farmers openly mix coca leaf with gasoline to extract a paste used to make the pure cocaine that is one of Colombia's top exports.

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