| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | War on Drugs
Kolumbien. Colombia Is Growing Record Amounts Of Coca, The Key Ingredient In Cocaine
Kolumbien. Colombia Is Growing Record Amounts Of Coca, The Key Ingredient In Cocaine
To explain why he grows coca, the raw material for cocaine, rather than food crops on his 5-acre farm in southern Colombia, Luis Tapia does the math. (...) A pound of paste, he says, sells for more than one ton of corn. (...) "That's why everyone grows coca," Tapia says. (NPR – National Public Radio, USA, 22.10.2018)