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Killing Cocaine



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This pod concerns different perspectives on coca eradication. Showing the police statements on coca sprayings with a chemical called glifosato. These sprayings are being financed by the US government as part of "plan Colombia", and despite the complains and reports showing the effects of this powerful chemical, the Colombian government, the US embassy and the antinarcotics police declare that there is no actual harm glifosato could do. We then witness the sprayings in Guaviare, and we'll see how glifosato works, the harm to other crops, to the forest, animals and the people. The farmers tell us their part of the story by showing their reactions on the effects of glifosato.
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9 responses // Killing Cocaine

  • intresting video. i was actually born in columbia and i did not know that columbia produced much of the worlds supplie of cocaine. you should make another video on how it is made from the coca plant
    mellowdude4
  • Glifosato = Roundup on Steroids
    It is a highly toxic herbicide manufactured by Monsanto and banned everywhere except developing countries.

    Any Colombian or any person familiar with Plan Colombia will tell you that this whole eradication operation is nothing more than a smoke screen. As soon as coca is eradicated in one region, guerrillas and drug barons find other regions in which to grow it.
    Statistics from agencies all across the board have shown that coca production has actually increased in Colombia during Plan Colombia.

    Manuel, you did a really great job on this pod!
    mcamargo
  • this report was so lame that i decided to actually get up from my bed and register with you and let you now that this was b@#$%^&t story . first we can agree that this people were cultivating coke . they were involve in the act producing narcotic. if they were not cultivating the plant they would not been sprayed . I am sure that you now that colombia Has one of the riches land in south america you can grow practicaly anything there now if a farmer wants to grow coke and get a better price for his crop than legal produce then thats his choice i think that the 5 or 4 minute report that you have made is not fair. the drug problem that exsist is a complex one it is not just colombia it is also U.S . problem. you could make a report about the drug problem and it could be 7 hours long and it would only be the tip of the the eight ball "ha ha ha " drug humer so good try
    peafunk
  • Is this piece supposed to make us feel sorry for these people? Has anyone ever heard the phrase, "you reap what you sew?" That is literally the case there. Each and every one of those people had crops planted next to the coca plant. They all know the risk and are paying the consequences. To even insinuate that we should stop ruining the crop because it takes out part of someone's corn crop is ridiculous. And as far as the girl who had to go to the hospital, she is a victim of her father not the United States.
    weskandel
  • coca is not cocaine! it has to be refined to be cocaine, coca cola use coca leaves to manufacture there own sweetened water drink so popular in America so why should a crop grown by the indigenous culture for centuries be eradicated because of legislation in another country in the last century?
    Rowsell
  • It's horrible that the economy in Colombia has deteriorated to the point that farmers have no other way to support themselves, but it does make you wonder what they did 50 years ago when the demand for cocaine wasn't as high around the world. Regardless, the Colombian government needs to put at least as much effort into its redevelopment efforts as it does in its crop destruction efforts.
    krissa024
  • All of you Negative Nancy's need to loosen up and blow a line.
    lapedro
  • The United States government should stop buying the product before they try ruining their suppliers. Besides not making any sense, it is bad business.
    lapedro
  • Well the truth is that US wants those drug cartels to spread to other areas for them to continue allowing the US to have interests in the countries they will move to, to grow more plants. The drug cartel business not only allows millions upon millions to be spent in the US on a nonexistant drug war (the real way to combat this is to legalize drugs), it also allows legislation to be passed that urges the countries from which these drugs are exported from to have a close relationship with the US and it's drug policies, perpetuating the drug cartel's ability to build a necessity for an army to help transport these drugs, giving the cartel a face which allows the US to point the finger at a particular cartel and say "they are the enemy, they are the drug dealers". Fact is, why not use the plants for medicinal purposes, it has a numbing agent in it, it also has an active ingredient that can drop the pain levels a patient is feeling by paralyzing nerve endings responsible for transmitting pain. Why not allow the native people to grow these plants for medicinal purposes? As stated before, it is less about a drug problem and more of a way for the US to get their foot in the doors of as many third world countries as possible, to further rape and pillage the less forturnate countries of this world for our corporation's and big business' profits and interests.
    Mafioso

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