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This Is Eliécer

Peter Dexter

Well-known member
Standing next to a coca schrub. For twenty years Eliécer grew coca and processed it into cocaine like all the other farmers in Guaviare Department. The product was sold to the FARC (Fuerzas Arnadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) guerrilla who tightly controlled the department out side the city of San José Del Guaviare and they sold it to the narcotraficantes who shipped it to the US and Europe. Two years ago a peace treaty was signed between the FARC and Colombian government and they were (mostly) dispersed. The government sought various means to replace coca production as the chief economy and among other strategies encouraged and subsidized tourism which had previously existed only on the tiniest scale because of the guerrilla who kidnapped foreigners. Eliécer now offers tourist lodging at his ranch and gives presentations showing step by step how coca leaves were processed into cocaine. In the photo he holds a vial where he keeps a chunk of pure cocaine.

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Here is a bag holding the liquid following processing. In addition to coca it contains cement, gasoline, caustic soda and several other chemicals.

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It is cooked or dried into a solid block. Here he holds up a chunk of pure cocaine which he said would have a local value of about six thousand pesos or two dollars US. He said the farmers never sampled the product.

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One time the police came in a helicopter and set fire to the pile of coca leaves kept under a shelter. You can see the burnt wooden beam. They took a photo of the blaze and left. He was able to put it out before much damage was done. He said they would show the pictures of the "destroyed operation" to their commander and get either extra pay or extra time off.

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He said the guerrilla were the law and were very strict but were good stewards of the land. They prohibited hunting, the cutting of trees and any commercial fishing of the rivers. If some one did something bad like stole a cow or raped a woman they would be warned not to do it again. If they repeated the offense they'd be tied to a tree for a couple of days. If there was a third offense they'd be told to get out or be shot.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Not a bad punishment for raping. So a fellow can readily do it twice before anything terrible happens to him!

What about the family? Don’t they come for justice to the FARC?

Asher
 

Peter Dexter

Well-known member
Asher perhaps I incited interest mentioning rape, possibly should have mentioned other crime.
The FARC exacted justice as they saw fit. I don't think any families approached them with petitions. That would have made them "trouble makers" and put them in the worst position.

James thank you very much.
 
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