No choice: Colombia’s ex-guerrillas revert to coca, crime ...Middle East

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CATATUMBO: When he laid down arms at the end of Colombia’s decades-long civil conflict, Eiber Andrade did not expect to ever return to a life of crime.Yet a mere five years later, the 24-year-old ex-guerrilla fighter makes a living from coca -- from which cocaine is derived -- in a region where the government’s post-conflict commitment to peace and better living has yet to bear fruit.After the 2016 peace agreement that saw the disarmament of the FARC guerrilla group and its withdrawal from the Catatumbo region near the border with Venezuela, Andrade tried his hand at agriculture.The region is home to the world’s largest concentration of coca crops -- a total of 40,084 hectares under cultivat

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