| The faces of
these friends sharing a joke belies the imminent danger to their
smallholding. Its close proximity to a coca plantation puts it at high risk
of destruction from aerial fumigation.
'Plan Colombia' was originally pitched as a
'war on drugs' and its fumigation programme has made an impact on coca
production in certain areas. Those most affected by the programme are not
the drug traffickers or the end users but the peasant farmers who survive
from growing coca and smallholders growing alternative crops which are also
killed during fumigation.
Their livelihood gone, many of these people
join the countries ever growing displaced population.
Putumayo. |
