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? around 1500, 2,000 in the community. the farc were here for 20 years and they were the central authority here. not doing particularly well, not particularly happy with the government. somebody 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. and they offer you a salary. so what is the future of this town? they re providing free education but there is a little
since 1999, there were no police 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. oh, yeah. anthony, this is the major. julio cesar gonzalez is the current mayor of milaflores, which has seen much better and much worse days. how many people live in this town? around 1,500 to 2,000 in the municipality. the farc were here for 20 years, and they were the central authority here.
yeah, it s very good. since 1999, there were no police 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 milaflores, 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.
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 preexisted 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 milaflores, which has seen better days. there s around 1500 to 2,000 in the community. the farc were here for 20 years, and they were the central authority here. you re running plantains and not much else? not even particularly well, not
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 milaflores, which has seen much better, much worse days.