i have only questions, i have no answers. i m so sorry. if i were the president, i really i i don t know what you wouldn t know what to do. no, i wouldn t. i wouldn t. to suggest that a nation should expand its social services, do its best to lift people out of poverty, to provide medical care for everyone, as you well know, that may be, in the minds of many, as the saved the country. are those as potentially dangerous ideas as they used to be? well, 25 years ago my father was killed just because he was asking for these basic things like clean water, a glass of milk, and an arepa for every child. that was we still don t have that, and we need that. now we in colombia, maybe we are trying. i think there are some people here even in the government who are working for that. (vo) nourished.
overnight, however, its population shrank by 85%. and what remains struggles to survive. so, the people here, you re telling me, either were born here yeah. or? most of the people came from elsewhere. in the beginning in the 1950s and 60s they were they were escaping 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
by drug trafficking, kidnapping and covert 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 here would grow the stuff and make 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 paramilitaries, with apparently much success.
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you definitely have to have like a mountain experience, which would be like medellin or bogota. right. another would be just go to the amazon, you know, like just go to the jungle and check out what s going on. i m planning a vacation. should i come to colombia? should i come to cali? most definitely, man. of course. you will find great music, great partying, great food, beautiful views, beautiful nature around. yeah, yeah, look, the country is beautiful, we know this. but most americans, they re afraid to come. is colombia any more dangerous for a tourist than rio or puerto rico? or south central? i mean, my impression is no. when you go to rio, you don t wear a big watch. you don t wear an expensive suit. you don t behave like an idiot, and life is going to be good. like, maybe i ve been lucky, but i ve never been either mugged or kidnapped or robbed. most people will tell you we had an amazing time, we heard some