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Drug Crops and Fumigation Photos


A coca field in La Macarena National Park in Meta.
Photo: Garry Leech

A campesino's house overlooks a coca
field in Putumayo.
Photo: Garry Leech

Coca leaves are the raw ingredient for cocaine.
Photo: Garry Leech
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A coca picker, or raspachine, harvests
coca leaves in Putumayo.
Photo: Garry Leech


Fields devastated by aerial fumigations in Meta.
Photo: Garry Leech


A coca paste lab in Meta burnt to the ground
by the Colombian army.
Photo: Garry Leech

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Bananas killed by aerial spraying in
La Macarena National Park in Meta.
Photo: Garry Leech
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A papaya tree killed by aerial fumigations
in La Macarena National Park in Meta.
Photo: Garry Leech
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A field of yucca plants destroyed by aerial
fumigation in Putumayo.

Photo: Garry Leech

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A maize field destroyed by Plan Colombia's
aerial fumigation in Putumayo.

Photo: Garry Leech


The citrus fruit from the lulo plant is used to make
juice drinks. This plant in Putumayo was
killed by the aerial fumigation.
Photo: Garry Leech



Many Guambiano Indians grow poppies in
small gardens behind their houses in
the Andean highlands in Cauca.
Photo: Garry Leech

Red and violet poppies growing in
the Andean highlands in Cauca.
Photo: Garry Leech

Poppies produce the opium latex that
is the raw ingredient for heroin.
Photo: Garry Leech

 

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