johnnyonelove
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Cocaine: Part 1 - Viva La Coca - Tonight (Tuesday) 8:30 SBS
This compelling three-part series from film-maker Angus Macqueen is a chilling journey from the coca fields, impoverished farmers and cocaine makers of the Peruvian Andes to drug gangs in the favelas of Rio and the law officials who are powerless to stop this illicit trade. Macqueen spent 18 months in Latin America filming this extraordinary series which provides insight into the much-maligned world of cocaine production. From the dirt poor valleys of Peru and the shanty towns of Rio, Macqueen talks to people behind the production of cocaine to explore the effect on their lives of the West's war on drugs. He comes to the contentious and surprising conclusion that legalisation of the drug would solve the biggest of the current problems - which are mostly due to the huge demand, ironically from the West.