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In the town of Guerima, which is a remote Colombian settlement, the residents are desperate to get their livelihood back…their livelihood of course being the production and sale of cocaine. You see, ever since Colombia deployed a national army to create a stranglehold around the town of Guerima, there is now no Marxist rebels (or anyone for that matter) to traffic their only commodity–cocaine.

It seems a bit odd to think that a town’s only means of making money would be one of the most abused drugs. However, this is the case with Guerima. The town consists of just over 1,000 people and is located in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia among tons of coca bushes (the source of cocaine). According to a recent article published in the Telegraph, Guerima was

…once the heartland of the 16th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), the Marxist guerrilla movement that has fought in Colombia’s jungles for the past 44 years. But now the troops of the 58th Counter-Guerilla Battalion patrol the dirt streets.

According to the article, many (if not all) of the residents depend on the coca trade with one local stating:

We are sitting on a mountain of coca and a series of Farc ‘IOUs’. We need the rebels back to pay the debts and buy the coca, otherwise the town will die.

Once again, it seems kind of ironic to think that here there are these people whose only way to make money is to sell drugs out of a country that is notorious for its exportation and large supply of drugs to the rest of the world. Now that the only livelihood that the people of Guerima have ever known has been cut off, it seems that the government will have to come up with some other alternative means of helping these people support themselves. However, given the past history of government relations to its people, the residents seem doubtful as to when or how this will ever happen.

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