The war on drugs takes many forms. Colombia presents the militarized version, with specially trained battalions of soldiers skimming over jungles and mountainsides, spraying defoliants from helicopter gun-ships. This “poisoned earth” policy kills coca plants, not peasant farmers. So many of these cross into Ecuador to cultivate coca there.
The war on drugs takes many forms. Colombia presents the militarized version, with specially trained battalions of soldiers skimming over jungles and mountainsides, spraying defoliants from helicopter gun-ships. This “poisoned earth” policy kills coca plants, not peasant farmers. So many of these cross into Ecuador to cultivate coca there.