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South America Video The Lost City, South America

Along the hike from the Caribbean coast to the Ciudad Perdida "The Lost City" in the jungle clad mountains of the Sierra Nevada we visited a cocaine lab run by a coca farmer. How do you make cocaine? Take some coca leaves, a number of nasty substances, add some bullets, some scary paramilitary soldiers, a dash of guerrillas, some corrupt cops and a pinch of coca farmer...

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