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Colombia signed a peace deal. Then cocaine production tripled

Leftwing rebels have been replaced by gangsters selling ever more drugs to Europe and Asia

Nora Taquanas thought that stability had finally come to her part of rural Colombia in 2016, when the government signed a peace deal with the country’s largest guerrilla group to bring half a century of insurgency to an end. 

A decade later, she says the conflict in Cauca province, in the south-west of the country between the Pacific Ocean and the foothills of the Andes, is “really much more intense now”.

“In the past, you could point to a group, sit down with the people involved, talk things through,” says Taquanas, a 35-year-old leader of an indigenous community. “We’re now dealing with groups that are driven primarily by economic interests.”

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