are you asking? you just stand here in the street and random strangers bringing delicious foods. this is a great country. wow this is beautiful. felt the cool rain show live. yeah. colombia. ordinarily and for all too many years when this country makes the news or appears in a film or a television drama, it s not for its looks, which are i should say, right up front spectacular. it s not for its people. who are everyone i ve ever met anyway. warm proud, generous and fun. or for its food, which is truly great. you know what this is, but it s good fruit in this country. excellent . i m no stranger to this place . generally speaking, it s a particularly vibrant mix of spanish european afro caribbean and indigenous people. these are deep waters by friends that no news story or episode of miami vice has ever come close to navigating, er. it is and always has been a fiercely fiercely proud country and its people yearn to see international coverage of something other than cocaine an
the land we re passing over is beautiful and lush. but the life for those below has been anything but colombia seems to be trapped in a vicious has used the territory as a haven for kidnapping and drug until recently, most of the news coming out of this part of colombia was not good. it was a front line in the war on drugs for lack of a better term and colombia s long struggle with the farc, a marxist guerilla force financed by drug trafficking, kidnapping and covert assistance from dirty war stakes, not about drugs per se, but about the ability of ordinary colombians to live without fear. we land in the jungle outpost of miraflores in the southern province of guaviare in the amazonian forest reserve. heavy presence of army
50 years of very dirty war. the stakes not about drugs, per se, but about the ability of ordinary colombians to live without fear. we land in the jungle outpost of miraflores in the southern province of guaviare in the amazonian forest reserve. the heavy presence of army and special police is a result of its strategic location and recent history as a one-time center of coca production. farmers here would grow this stuff and make leaves into paste. traffickers would come and buy it. the farc had this area under its sphere of influence for years. nine years ago, the government moved to expel the farc, the traffickers, and any paramilitaries, with apparently much success. overnight, however, its
the stakes not about drugs per se, but about the ability of ordinary colombians to live without fear. we land in the jungle outpost of miraflores in the southern province in the amazonian forest reserve. the heavy presence of army and special police is a result of its strategic location and recent history as a one-time center of coca production. farmers here would grow the stuff and make leaves into past. traffickers would come and buy it. the farc had this area under its sphere of influence for years. nine years ago, the government moved to expel the farc, the traffickers and any paramilitaries, with apparently much success.
the stakes not about drugs per se, but about the ability of ordinary colombians to live without fear. we land in the jungle outpost of miraflores in the southern province in the amazonian forest reserve. the heavy presence of army and special police is a result of its strategic location and recent history as a one-time center of coca production. farmers here would grow the stuff and make leaves into past. traffickers would come and buy it. the farc had this area under its sphere of influence for years. nine years ago, the government moved to expel the farc, the traffickers and any paramilitaries, with apparently much success. overnight, however, its population shrank by 85%.