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Colombia: drugs, war and cartels

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By the 1990s right-wing paramilitaries had formed. They were made mainly of drug traffickers and landowners. The main paramilitary group called themselves the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). Since the 1970s, Colombia has been home to some of the most violent and sophisticated drug trafficking organizations in the world...
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What started as a small cocaine smuggling business has, in the last thirty years, blossomed into an enormous multi-national cocaine empire. Starting in the mid-1970s, marijuana traffickers in Colombia began exporting small quantities of cocaine to the United States hidden in suitcases. "At that point, cocaine could be processed for $1500 a kilo in jungle labs and could be sold on the streets of America for as much as $50,000 a kilo" (pbs...
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