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
on the side of the road and those tomatoes don t even belong to them by the way it s a difficult country to live in people have been struggling it s virtually just a whole big informal sector subsistence farm is people living hand to mouth industries closing down businesses closing down there s no cash in this economy so the media challenge is to is to revitalize above his economy to open up this country to investment that had been hampered by the policies of robert mugabe s time in office what he needs to do is signal to the international community that zimbabwe is open for business and he needs to show that he s going to clamp down on corruption these are some of the things that international investors would shy away from zimbabwe for him to say this is a corrupt government talking about politicians owning much of this country and benefiting from the gambles state taking place under the table so he s got to address the economic challenges that this country is facing immediately sumi.
just occupied by the farc. and then by the farmers who tried to yeah. so, that s when the real violence began. so, really, the problems in this country pre-existed the drug trade? what we say here is the drug trade just made everything more. there s no judge here. there s few institutions here. right. basically, you know that the state is here just because the army is here. so, i think we re going to meet the major. anthony, this is the major. julio cesar gonzalez is the current mayor of miraflores, which has seen much better and much worse days. how many people in this town? there s around 1,500 to 2,000 in the municipality. the farc were here for 20 years, and they were the central authority here. you re running a subsistence farm growing plant yanz and not much else.
or army force here, so it was just occupied by the farc. and then by the farmers who tried to but that s when the real violence began. so really the problems in this country pre-existed the drug trade? what we say here is the drug trade just made everything more. there s no judge here. there s few institutions here. right. basically you know the state is here just because the army is here. so i think you re going to meet the major. anthony, this is the major. julio cesar gonzalez is the current mayor of miraflores, which has seen much better and much worse days. how many people live in this town? there s around 1,500 to 2,000 in the municipality. the farc were here for 20 years, and they were the central authority here. you re running subsistence