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What Colombias new president means for the fight against drugs · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Out in the wild. In rural Colombia, hidden lane mines
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  Speaker 1: are scattered on the ground. We travel to the regions
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  Speaker 1: that feed the world drug trade and spoke with the
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  Speaker 1: people caught in between, children, farmers and soldiers.
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  Speaker 2: Erectam and vita.
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  Speaker 1: Colombia is at a turning point, facing growing polarization or
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  Speaker 1: how to end half a century of violence and just
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  Speaker 1: elected a trampbacked populist who promises to go after criminal
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  Speaker 1: groups with all guns blazing on the first slopes of
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  Speaker 1: the Andes. The town of Uribe has been one of
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  Speaker 1: the most affected by the Colombian conflict. Even kids here
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  Speaker 1: known about land mines. The army sends instructors to primary
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  Speaker 1: schools every month to hold classes like these. They're using
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  Speaker 1: puppets and videos and cartoons. It can all seem very funny. Well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: the core of the lesson is that in this part
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  Speaker 1: of the world they're touching or even.
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  Speaker 2: Poking with the state and real object can be very dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Violence here is rooted in the past. While land mines
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  Speaker 1: have been used in Colombia for decades, attacks have grown
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  Speaker 1: in recent years. To understand better, we meet a d
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  Speaker 1: mining unit from the army, a legacy of decades of
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  Speaker 1: guerrilla warfare, Colombia is one of the countries most affected
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  Speaker 1: by land mines in the world.
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  Speaker 2: This unit uses don't in order to detect the land mines.
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  Speaker 2: The sergeant was telling me that these dogs is capable
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  Speaker 2: of while identifying explosive up to thirteen centimeters or four
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  Speaker 2: inches on the ground. We're going to try to get
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  Speaker 2: a closer look.
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  Speaker 1: Romance scance the surface with his nose and when he
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  Speaker 1: smelts something, he stops. It turns out it was a
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  Speaker 1: false flag. But the unit still has to dispose of
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  Speaker 1: a device they said that they found. This week, We're
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  Speaker 1: now entering the Atle area where there is six men.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to find as many land mines
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  Speaker 1: as possible. Because these land mines are buried beneath the trees,
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  Speaker 1: the soldiers must detonate them where they find them, moving
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  Speaker 1: very carefully. A the miner can clear only one hundred
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  Speaker 1: square feet of woods every day, and this unit has
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  Speaker 1: almost ten acres to deal with in this location alone.
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  Speaker 1: The quick fuse.
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  Speaker 3: We GRGA GRGO.
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  Speaker 1: And the lame mine is taking care of. Last year,
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  Speaker 1: Colombia recorded one hundred and thirty seven lame mind incidents
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  Speaker 1: the future of Columbia's war on drugs are at the
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  Speaker 1: core of this month's presidential election. We have arrived to
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  Speaker 1: the city of Barankilla, which is the hometown Ofria, the
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  Speaker 1: riving candidate. Here, everyone calls him Alardo.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna try to speak with some of his supporters Latent, yesciendo.
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  Speaker 1: Avice Before long a confrontation.
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  Speaker 3: Was it'es basically the two visions of Columbia being argued.
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  Speaker 1: He are on the sidewalk. We decided to follow the
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  Speaker 1: gentleman in red. He voted for the left and he's
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  Speaker 1: worried that conflict could spark again.
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  Speaker 5: Alabas Algolitic alps at the.
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  Speaker 1: U behind armored Glass, has campaigned on the promise of
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  Speaker 1: a new offensive that includes joint operations with US military.
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  Speaker 1: Even though he defended alleged drug traffigures in court as
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  Speaker 1: a lawyer before entering politics, his targets now are the
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  Speaker 1: very group that deploy mines across the country. We join
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  Speaker 1: narcotics police to put Mayo in the Colombian Amazon to
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  Speaker 1: see what the current strategy to find the drug trade
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  Speaker 1: looks like. Colombia is the largest cocaine producer in the world,
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  Speaker 1: with two hundred and fifty thousand hectares of wide lands
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  Speaker 1: taken over by coca crops. Production remains at record levels
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  Speaker 1: despite government efforts to replace the plant with legitimate crops. Here,
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  Speaker 1: government officials are pitching farmers a new program. For every
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  Speaker 1: coca plant dug out of the ground, the state will
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  Speaker 1: provide seeds and financial support to switch to coffee or cacao.
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  Speaker 1: Mariapenia is one of the first to sign up, and as.
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  Speaker 5: Julia Puesto alan Omascoca Torque for Mizijus.
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  Speaker 1: The outgoing government chose a new approach after the war
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  Speaker 1: on drugs left tens of thousands dead. Dubbed total peace,
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  Speaker 1: it meant engaging in negotiations with insurgents rather than confronting
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  Speaker 1: them militarily. Critics, including Donald Trump, say the policy failed
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  Speaker 1: to make an impact. President Gustavo Petro told us almost
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  Speaker 1: nine thousand hectors of coca have been eradicated, and yet
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  Speaker 1: this small dent has been eclipsed by the surge in
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  Speaker 1: violent attacks. Yesstic its porquet also need those per employ
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  Speaker 1: the Certificado Anovo, Fracaso Diplomatico and present Aresta Nueva Columbus.
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  Speaker 5: Presented from the cool certification pool Estaban Crescimian tr respondence
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  Speaker 5: Pea and.
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  Speaker 2: He Nomasi.
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  Speaker 1: The Lestralia emerged victorious by the finest of margins and
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  Speaker 1: on the promise of a complete turnaround on Petro's peace efforts.
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  Speaker 1: Australia has just taken center stage. It's quite a spectacle, but.
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  Speaker 3: This feels a pivotal moment in the history of Columbia.
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  Speaker 1: It feels Columbia can be set for a very, very
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  Speaker 1: tense time ahead if the other half of the country
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  Speaker 1: doesn't agree with those results. Back at the school, teacher Martinez,
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  Speaker 1: who sees the scars of war every day in a
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  Speaker 1: town surrounded by minefields, says that neither strategy really convinces her.
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  Speaker 1: While Petro's negotiations allowed criminal groups to expand the Lustraa's
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  Speaker 1: call to arms frightens many. She has a dream of
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  Speaker 1: a Columbia free from conflict, but how to get there
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  Speaker 1: remains an open question. Thy Yes,