Follow the path cocaine takes from Colombian bush labs to your local suburbs — and the battle to intercept it.
A spoon with a brown substance is held against a candle in a Colombian cocaine lab.
When FARC soldiers started de-arming, other armed groups began moving into their former territories and that increased the "push factors" for coca cultivation, according to Professor Duran-Martinez. The result of all this is that the amount of land used to grow coca in Colombia has more than tripled over the past decade, and so has the amount of cocaine Colombia supplies the world.By volume, the most frequent way cocaine enters Australia is by sea.
"We're out here now and there's no one around. So anyone could just jump this wire fence here or easily cut the bolt here on the gate.
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