are you asking? you just stand here in the street and random strangers bringing delicious foods. this is a great country. wow this is beautiful. felt the cool rain show live. yeah. colombia. ordinarily and for all too many years when this country makes the news or appears in a film or a television drama, it s not for its looks, which are i should say, right up front spectacular. it s not for its people. who are everyone i ve ever met anyway. warm proud, generous and fun. or for its food, which is truly great. you know what this is, but it s good fruit in this country. excellent . i m no stranger to this place . generally speaking, it s a particularly vibrant mix of spanish european afro caribbean and indigenous people. these are deep waters by friends that no news story or episode of miami vice has ever come close to navigating, er. it is and always has been a fiercely fiercely proud country and its people yearn to see international coverage of something other than cocaine an
yep anthony, this is the major cesar gonzalez is the current mayor of miraflores, which has seen much better and much worse days. how many people live in this town around 1,502,000 in the community polity media player for 20 years and they were the central authority here . if you re running a subsistence farm, growing plantains and not much else, you re not eating particularly well, you re not particularly happy with the government. somebody comes along and offers you nice machine gun and a cool scarf. yeah especially if you re 15 16 years old. that s a pretty attractive of course it is. they say, you ll probably be dead by the time of the 25 come on. it is and they offer you a salary. so what is the future of this town? program. next year. they re providing, um. three
problems in this country pre-existed the drug trade? pablo: what we say here is that the drug trade just made everything war. there s no judge here. there s, uh, few institutions here. anthony: right. pablo: basically, you know that the state is here just because the army is here. so, i think here we re going to meet the mayor. anthony: oh, yeah. pablo: anthony, this is the mayor. anthony: julio cesar gonzález is the current mayor of miraflores, which has seen much better and much worse days. so, how many people live, uh, in this town? pablo: around 1,500, 2,000 in the municipality. the farc were in miraflores for 20 years, and they were the central authority here. anthony: if you re running a subsistence farm growing plantains and not much else, you re not even particularly well, you re not particularly happy with the government, somebody comes along and offers you a nice machine gun and a cool scarf pablo: yeah. anthony: especially if you re 15, 16 years old, t
much else. you re not eating particularly well, you re not particularly happy with the government. someone comes along and offers you a nice machine gun and a cool scarf yeah. especially if you re 15, 16 years old, that s a pretty attractive offer. of course, it is. even if they say you ll probably be dead by the time you re 25. it is. come on. it is, and they offer you a salary. so, what is the future of this town? [ speaking foreign language ] they re providing free education, but there s a lot of potential in biodiversity and ecotourism as well. what a lot of people say is, without the customer, there s no cocaine trade and there s no violence, right? so if the united states and europe stopped buying cocaine? it s so impossible, i can t think about it, if the situation where the demand is not going to be there. but demand in the states is down 40%. as long as there s a market, there will be people ready to do it.