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Farmer Miguel Mangos shows cocaine base paste at the end of the processs to make it from coca leaves in a "cambullon" (small lab to produce cocaine base paste) in a clandestine farm next to the Inirida River, Guaviare department, Colombia on September 25, 2017.

The scarce 300 settlers of La Paz, in the department of Guaviare (southeast) are connected only through the river. Their currency is the product they harvest, the coca leaves, the base for the production of cocaine. Now, under pressure from the United stated, the largest world consumer of cocaine, the Colombian governement plans to erradicate 100,000 hectares of the culture, willingly or not.
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