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This farmer wanted to quit the cocaine industry - he couldn't
Colombians who grow cocaine's raw material bemoan a lack of support to help them switch crops.
A Colombian farmer, Perea, who once sought to exit the cocaine industry, states he lacked the necessary financial backing to cease cultivating coca.
After uprooting the green coca bushes from his small farm
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