Comments on: Cocaine Country

Cocaine Country

homunculus — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:54:38 -0800

Cocaine Country, Sights & Sounds. An 8 minute Flash movie from National Geographic's story, Cocaine Country, by Carlos Villalón, about cocaine in Colombia and what the crop means to the people. [Via TalkLeft.]

By: homunculus

homunculus — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:04:01 -0800

Hide-and-Seek Among the Coca Leaves

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:18:02 -0800

Very interesting. He makes a good point about how cocaine causes rainforest destruction as the farmers keep moving to more and more remote areas as the US fumigates the fields.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 23:05:09 -0800

I was startled by how people use their coke as barter for food, toilet paper, and other necessities. It makes sense, but I had never really thought about it like that.