in style, is actually colombia. if there s one type of music that can be classified as distinctly colombian, this is it. cumbia draws on the african, european mix of the country, so will and mario created something a long way from the pop music that s a staple here. they brought together musicians who had been famous in the scenes in the 50s and 60s, and matched them up with younger counterparts. with the impressive amount of fried meat we ate at the tejo court, we go for dinner at. one of the band s favorite spots. the recording we made for three weeks in medellin, had four musicians, and musicians from, i think the youngest was
bogata, the country s capital and an almost two-mile-high city with new lofty food ambitions, where previously the restaurant scene didn t really exist. now young restauranteurs such as musician turned chef tomas rueda are beginning to make a name for themselves in colombia. this is one of the biggest markets in bogata. i love this place. it s very beautiful. the colors. my mom comes here to buy flowers, my grandma also. did i mention that this city is over 8,000 feet up? hence the altitude sickness i m feeling. not good.
marxist guerrilla force financed by drug trafficking, kidnapping and covered assistance from venezuela. 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 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 would grow the stuff, making 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
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paramilitaries, with apparently much success. overnight, however, its population shrank by 85%. what remains struggles to survive. the people here you re telling me they were born here? most of the people came from elsewhere. in the beginning in the 1950s and 60s they were they were escape from the violence, from the political violence between the two parties in colombia. so if you were having problems in the city or wherever you were from, you came out here? yeah. so what did you do for a living out here? cattle and some agriculture, and after that the drug trade began and everything with the coca plantations. the climate is good for it? yeah, very good. since 1999, there were no police or army force here, so it was