{"article":{"id":5757,"heading":"TheScotsman: Drug war ravages Colombia","author":"Jeremy McDermott In Putumayo","created":"2001-03-28 19:15:13","modified":"2005-08-15 00:31:47","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:31:47","article":"

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\"The US is attacking the Colombian peasant who makes nothing from the drug trade, while the huge profits are made by gringo [American] drug dealers and stashed in gringo banks. The Colombian people are paying for gringo drug addiction. We are paying with our blood.\"

Drug war ravages Colombia

Jeremy McDermott In Putumayo

SWATHES of southern Colombia look like desert: crops withered, the ground parched and brown. The biggest aerial drug eradication in the world is well under way, destroying every plant that grows on more than 30,000 hectares of fragile Amazonian ecosystem.



























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