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- Gasoline is one of the main ingredients for processing cocaine in Colombia. But as fuel prices increase, some locals are stealing crude oil to make bootleg gasoline known as pategrillo. Now, police are trying to find and destroy the illegal labs in an effort to curb the country's decades-long cocaine problem.
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“If they legalized it(coca farming) then it wouldn’t be a business anymore, because they(the government) would set the price.” This man just summed up the largest cause for the scale of corruption, and illicit activities in South American countries.
If they legalised coca, the American corporations will take over, and they will destroy small coca farmers,
That's not how it works. There will always be a black market.
@@BattTube Black markets exists for what legal markets can't readily provide.
I think Al Capone said it best, cliché as it might be: "I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand."
How international zionist bankers use sanctions to bully countries into their world view, there is a war between good and evil , zionists are pure evil psychopaths BDS israel FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸.
@@Nick-rs5if and legal markets cant provide cheap and untested drugs, so the black market will shrink, but not dissapear
What struck me as ridiculous was the above ground pipeline, literally giving the crude to them.
Oil pipelines are always above ground though
They are to poor and don’t have the equipment to bury the pipes obviously
They actually know how to process gasoline too ! Imagine what they could do if they had money !
our geography is too hard to make underground pipes, that combined with decades old civil war meant it was easier and cheaper to have above ground pipes so they could be repaired faster everytime they got blown up (it happened so often it was like sports reporting in the news)
@@tomb9420 i feel like thats the main reason why the US is trying to step, in not all these countries have the “technology” to process crude including mexico, so they ship crude to the US and buy gasoline back kinda odd that they focus on destroying the refineries and not the plantations
You can't stop production without ending consumption. As long as there's demand a new supplier will appear.
It's true...as long as there is a demand for it, there will be suppliers.
it isn't a simple one-way cycle... it goes both ways. If there are enough temptations, people also fall for it. Then people fall for it, there are more temptations. so on
Duh, everyone knows this but the question is how
this is dumb cocaine is the best drug. USA allows it 100% they just bust the cartels that dont pay them
@@JamesWoods-pp3zb you legalise and educate so damage to people and the environment is minimal
I started doing drugs since my teenage, spent my whole life fighting cocaine addiction. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.
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I worked with quite a few Colombian guys in kitchens and they said issue is that there's no road infrastructure for farmers. A lot of the time for poorer farmers their plot is so far out on a dirt road they need to manually bring crops back. The cartels don't need that - they offer more money, protection (not really) and easier logistics - you have a field that saves you so much money getting it to distribution as well as getting above average for wholesale price there's really no choice.
The man in the end literally said if coca farming was legalized it would no longer be a business because they(the government) would set the price. Do people not get that these governments don’t support much Capitalism at all. There is no incentive to create a business when the government tells you how much profit you even get to make.
Exactly
Is it because crime is paying more , I feel sorry for all the people who are dying because they use drugs, cartels fill their pockets with money, while others are dealing with their garbage 🗑
@@javiersepulvedahidalgo3255
Who's dying. Your funny
You CHOOSE to be a criminal.... plain and simple.
"Government cracking down on every part of cocaine business"😂😂😂
I wonder how they're tackling corrupt officials who work on war on drugs
American consumers are a much larger part of the dynamic. America needs to stop preventing legalization
Couldn't be that the US government is somehow majorly involved in trafficking those drugs haha, no they would never do that, that would be illegal and immoral
We know Petro is …. 🤣
ZTälliehn v??v
It’s all show and tell nothing is going to change,if the demand for the product doesn’t change they still have a market
“Plant more then 2 kilos have $1000” imagine the look on his face when he find out how much a gram of coke is worth in Australia
You think he doesn't know? Most people don't want to be millionaires they are just happy to survive comfortably
He knows exactly how much it costs....he has an iPhone same as anyone else, lol
Bro, that's the price here, in Colombia, obviously it's cheaper.
How much is a kilo there? Here in the US they’ll go for 18-25K
@kirkdunn1379
That contamination will be felt for generations. Air, water, land. It’s heartbreaking.
Its already been around for generations lol
The drug industry hardly touches the ankles of the impact the meat industry has on the environment and nobody cares anyway.
All this self-dick-sucking over the burning candle, and not a single word of the dumpster fire. How convenient not picking an opinion must be...
It's already been around for generations.. Like STD's in last comment family.
"Being with the guys" is quite possibly the best reason I've ever heard for joining the police
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Destroying the refineries seems logical at first but think of the consequences.
As they said a new one will be set up and then another part of the land gets contaminated.
The more refineries they destroy the more land will be contaminated.
Allowing them to keep refining crude oil in the jungle isn't an option but destroying the refinieries does not seem like a plan to stop it.
There is no answer to this. When corruption owns a country insted a country having corruption 🤷♀️
@@puraLusa legalize it and regulate it so its cleaner and not contaminating nature
@@peanutbutterpadre1519 if a product is licensed without limit ot floads the market. When a country has a products that floads the international market it over values it's currency, making exports non competive but imports easy, this on turn kills any other economic activity not said product related sending it's workers into destitute poverty and opening the country into a cicle of dutch decease or ressource curse.
Double edge decision. It isn't straight foward easy as u think.
@@puraLusa its still illegal everywhere else so there is your limit stop word souping your version of "lets not even try"
@@peanutbutterpadre1519 for exactly the same reason. Word souping? U mean economy basics, yeah it might be word souping to u 🤷♀️
The guy doing it to support his family and then when he failed his wife left him 😢 that's devastating.
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Thank you too all of the hard working coca farmers out there.
I disagree with the journalist saying it is illegal to farm coca. From my understanding it is legal to grow it , only illegal to process it. Colombia is not the only country in south america that grows and manufatures it either. Those people live what i call primitive lives. They dont live long and are very poor. From my opinion they have nothing to lose and have to support their families. Really some of them are actually kind hearted people. Its sad really. 😢
I'm not for or against, but these government agencies are making it worse
THE NEED FOR COCAINE WILL NEVER SUBSIDE.NOT TO MENTION THE BILLIONS IN REVENUE. SO COLOMBIA WILL KEEP MAKING COCAINE.
The men performing are either brainwashed or have a love for adrenaline & violence because their labor is in vain.
You're right. Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru are also large producers of cocaine, which is then transported to Mexico, and then trafficked across the border into the US.
Correct. It is used like tea or mate. Similar effects...
You talking about Peru. They can legally grow coca leafs
If they just grew it for the world and first world labs processed the leaves we could all have good gear AND save the environment 😅😅😅
I really would love to see a documentary on the companies that produce crude oil... Seems like nobody is talking about their environmental impact...
There is plenty
@@rmf9567 wow, your answer was really helpful!!! Thank you so much!!!
@@fr4gde4l3r sorry friend, I meant it as sarcasm because there isn’t much out there.. I agree with you
@@rmf9567 oh, mate, sry, I didn't catch that
They won’t talk about it either, they will just say it’s the consumers fault and I guess they are not exactly wrong.
Psilocybin treatment actually saved me from addiction to cocaine. Never had a bad trip.
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May be the government needs a plan so that the oil profits can be used to improve the quality of lives of the locals. This is a very important reason why locals do not cooperate. We see such things a lot in India specially in mineral rich places where the local tribals are in disadvantage.
Because nationalizing industries tends to turn out so well in countries with corrupt governments...
They would have to gaf about the locals first
I guess you missed the plot there.
The government did provide them with an alternative. Giving them a livelihood as well as trying to shutting down Coca farming.
Irony is, after all that, with the locals wholeheartedly accepting the alternative plan, the government abandoned them. Hence they had to go back to farming the Coca. Hearing that, made me so frustrated.
I would have agreed with you if the government hadn't made any effort so far. They did make an effort & made it worst; loosing the trust of the people & solving no problem either.
I mean to say, the worst situation you're pointing out to, the government over there has doubled down on it! Very shameful.
@@Haritsa-N the government is corrupt. apparently norway (I think that's the one) has used their state owned oil and natural gas companies to make huge profit. Their government has used that money to build out renewable energy infrastructure to the point that they export almost everything they extract. They've also used those profits to invest in the stock market so that when stuff gets real they can run the country from that giant money pile. It's amazing what can be done with a government that is both competently run and almost completely free of corruption. Norway is the only petro state to have done the logical thing with their natural resources. If only the US would follow suit
The war on drugs is a businessmodel
I agree, I wonder who benefits from it? It seems so crazy, but maybe somebody is benefitting, I think I got it.
Police/Enforcement is always benefitting cause they get paid for that
Maneeeeee I can barely pass my chemistry class and farmers out here refining 😭😭😭
Same lmao
I have no doubt the cartels are happy to offer a quick-start lesson in coca chemistry - or at least the practicals. Mix this + this, get this. We like it when you mix this way... etc
poverty would help you.
It’s not rocket science. Heat and an alkaloid. Probably harder to purify cocaine.
It's just distillation, it doesn't even look like they're using a fractal distillation tower. They're basically just making moonshine from crude oil. So the fuel you end up with is an impure blend of hydrocarbons similar to gasoline.
THANK YOU CARLOS !!! KEEP GOING!!!
When the government is the majority shareholder of the oil industry and still they don't put the pipes underground. You know what the problem is.
For a short time Peru was the top producer. In 2013 they were named the largest producer and in 2015 Colombia regained their title.
Should add this as a Forbes list every year
@@MoAli-wm4of😂😂😂
The failed drug war is like trying to dam a river using pudding cups.
Quiting isn't an option either.
@@puraLusa Yes it is
@@puraLusa legalise it and put huge restrictions and warnings and teach about the harmful effects like they do with cigarettes. this will eliminate the cartel because then why would people want to deal with people that kill for business?
and the makers of Pudding cups constantly pay people to believe that it is a good idea...
@@coolboy5428 Why would you want anyone to quit holding back these criminals? Would you like to see the planet covered in parasites. No soul just the walking dead all over the planet? What if that's not an option? What if the walking dead is not allowed to speak to the living and everyone no matter what or who they are have to obey the ten commandments otherwise they're subject to extermination. This is obviously a parasite the very reason the planet is revolting against it's inhabitants AKA the parasites that take everything the planet has and never gives anything back that by definition is a parasite. Parasites don't have rights. They prayed to Moloch they answer to Moloch. They know what Moloch does to them when their contract is expired of which it is. If they are now praying to Jesus to save them that won't work being Jesus Christ ends up crucifying them.
Speaking from a military veteran’s(U.S. Marine Corps and Iraq War veteran) perspective as well as a person who knows very little about about Latin American culture in general. I visited Colombia 2 years ago with a family who were adopting a child from down there. It’s an amazing country. It’s gorgeous and the people overall there are amazing as well. I got a chance to traverse a lot of the Andes mountains as well as the area throughout the Caribbean Sea coastal region. Even if you were an elite special forces operative, it’s nearly impossible to patrol the terrain down there effectively. Unfortunately the only way to curb the flow of cocaine production in Colombia is for the demand for cocaine to drastically decrease.
Yeah, but that's not going to happen anytime lately, boss. The demand for it, I mean.
I personally hate the drug and what it does to people and families. But I'm a minority in that regard.
Glad you made it out or service alive mate.
Viet Cong has entered the chat 😂😂😂😂
Or regulate the market and let these people produce it legally. Then only the regular pressures of capitalism become responsible for the human rights abuses. Cocaine use is only really a moral issue when it becomes a vice. We learned these lessons with alcohol prohibition.
You will never eliminate the demand for drugs. Drug prohibition is unconstitutional just like alcohol prohibition was and for the same reasons.
@@huemann7637 I’d go one step further and call it a genocide of the mentally ill and a war on the working class.
"We just want to work and live in peace" says every link in the chain of drug production and distribution.
they want it both ways. but it's one way.
You’d be doing the same if you didn’t have money.
Goverment has failed the people of the rural zones sadly, hope for the best for these people.
The levels of risk and motivations always fascinate me with this
From what this videos shows, these police literally work for the oil companies/corporate interests. They safe guard the pipes, it's just made to look like a war against dRuGs.
Good stuff boys keep up the hard work
They could easily fly drones or a plane to monitor the pipe line daily or even weekly. That refinery was there for a LONG time.
But how will the cartel (basically govt officials),make money?
The majority of the pipelines here in Colombia, are deep in forest and jungle, real dense jungle, even electricity is not avaliable, if you see a map of where the population lives in Colombia, is just the north and mountain part, more than half of the country is pure amazon jungle, or dense forest, super dense.
I think you watch too many TH-cam videos.
the government runs the cartels. surprise surprise
@nricardoe lidar or thermal could do it would be more than they could probably afford to start a program like that but it’s possible
In Colombia there is so much control of goverment by drug cartels that I believe they are not destroying crops because of "war on drugs" but because different family pays for the advantage..
my guy, you know nothing, the cartels ended in the 90s, and right now all that remains are guerrilla hold outs in the western jungle parts of the country were so close to ending this
My humble Colombians thank you. Ya got me doing the cha cha slide on weekends
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The day the Colombian government stops being influenced by outsiders and make cocaine production legal and raise the price of coca leaves so farmers can earn more this will happen less frequently.
The Colombian government is westernised
If they legalized growing coca the price would fall to the floor, the coca farmer they interviewed in the video literally said that at 13:45 . Kind of how like when weed got legalized in my state the price got so low its hard to imagine how an independent grower could even make money on it. Grams of 90% THC for under $10, after an insanely high tax is applied to it.
@@yeahman147 It was from the get go
To sell to just who ?
The day you get an education the better it is for you to find a reason to continue breathing bud. lmao ahah xddd
Having lived around the world, mostly in developing countries, I strongly believe the biggest environmental problem is poverty. We a
we a what?!... WE A WHAT?!...
@@Gino_567 My mans died.
They killed him... He knew to much
I didnt even know there was such a thing as bootleg gas.
Thanks for the tutorial
If Colombia doesn't want a drug industry it has to step up and create new industries and jobs. Being a drug cook is relatively ok, compared to what else a desperate person could be getting up to (kidnapping, thuggery, etc)
Also Americans need to stop consuming so much drugs. They are the ones that enabling the organize crime by buying their product.
Well,these drugs do finance guerrillas who also take money thru kidnapping, extortion and more
And you make thousands of people addicted to this substance
Yeah it needs to show the US the middle finger, legalise it and move on from a war on drugs that has brought this country to its knees.
@LiamL763 the US would fund the opposition then Colombians know their place 😂😂😂
Nice job, you basically showed the guy's licence plate at 11:29, thought you wanted to conceal his identity lol
in 11:45 they say his name and show his face so...
@@sushionaram is that not a new person?
Lol
Thank you for this coverage of this illicit bussiness in my country!
Yes because if it's not owned by the CIA then it shouldn't exist!
Business*
I stand with the farmers. Its the governments war on drugs that causing hell on earth
support your country you idiot not the people who suppress the working class !!!!!
COKE OR NO COKE YOUR GOVERNMENT IS THE ONE WHO REALLY SELLS AND IMOORTS THIS YOUR A SLAVE AND ALWAYS WILL BE WITH THIS MINDSET
This is even better than the Narcos series. Kudos to this video creator.
Great journalism ! thank you for sharing.
Propaganda
Legalize it!!!
Hopefully, that would help regulate all steps of the process, make a safer product, more eco friendly process, and less "crime"
If they did morons would process it like they did with weed to make it more and more potent till eventually they'd be selling crack dabs.
100% and maybe all aquatic life doesn't have to die there... Colombian Noah's ark only cartel, farmers and cocoa plants
Thanks TH-cam for such video recommendations ❤
very good instructional video ! thanks for the tips!!!
Thanks now I'll gonna start making it just waiting for the recipe.
Probably dirty feet hands and urine
1:42 I live in Tumaco (Nariño) and i can tell by this time the "platano" (green banana) It is one of the most legal profitable crops. This sir says that a bunch of bananas is worth $2, with that there are only 10 bananas today. For a house or a restaurant you buy 100 of them and you pay more than $30, and believe, one platano is a holy part of your food here...
Love the dog taking a dump @ 9:34 😂
Bravo! Viva Colombia!
Legalize it and the criminal organizations go away. Just like happened after prohibition.
i agree. people so scared to legalize it. but unfortunately the facts show the harms in criminalizing things that people want. that really doesn't harm anyone else if it becomes legal. we could all grow greenhouses of coca leaves and have our own plantations, where is the injustice to that?
A lot of countries dont have this problem like in Asia because they execute drug dealers.
@@jonathanduketis2769 heart issues/cardiac arrest, dangerous effects on minors not to mention it unlike alcohol is inherently addictive
@@liammadden7572 if your life can be derailed by a little coke, you were set up to be a looser or example for your betters.
Legalized coke will save sooo many lives and enrich and uplift lots of poor people
@@liammadden7572 Dr Nutt was the Governments head drug advisor and he concluded that alcohol and tobacco were the two most dangerous drugs in terms of the impact on society and the impact on the persons health.
Good job on making videos like these, I am from Colombia, lived there for 16 years, and I also been in the USMC for almost 3 years, props to them Colombians soldiers/and cops.
I agree that it's a great video, I have one question that you might be able to answer. In the video at 13:15 min it mentions that more then 20,000 people overdosed in the US. My question is, are there statistics of the amount of people being murdered per year related to cocaine in Colombia? I'd love to know your insights.
Hard to trust the legitimacy of any numbers this "journalist" cites.
About the oil pipeline thefts she said "they"ve lost 260,000 barrels to theft, that's over $2 billion dollars."
Wrong! Even at $75 per barrel that's only $20 million. Off by a multiple of 1000X.
Just so you know this "war" is total BS.
In Columbia, there are 605,000 acres planted with cocoa.
220,000 farmers make their living from cocoa earning at most $2,000.00 per year. If the US gov't paid each farmer $2,000.00 per year to Not grow cocoa the bill would be $440 million per year. A pittance compared to what we spend trying to "defeat" it.
@@jtjones4081 "Columbia" "Cocoa" lmao clown
I'm not for or against, but these government agencies are making it worse
THE NEED FOR COCAINE WILL NEVER SUBSIDE.NOT TO MENTION THE BILLIONS IN REVENUE. SO COLOMBIA WILL KEEP MAKING COCAINE.
The men performing are either brainwashed or have a love for adrenaline & violence because their labor is in vain.
We won't reveal his identity
3 min later, "Fransico lives in Narinjo"
"but farming it is illegal in Colombia so we are hiding his identity" - the registration on the motorbikes have a fair argument here
17 years clean from coke. It truly is the devils drug.
Alcohol, benzos, opiates...if the cocaine is clean there are so SO many more substances deserving of that title. Not even close.
Use it moderately if you can otherwise keep your fingers from it.
@@speedineed5327 your body has one.......
Such a silly association. The plant is not bad, the extract of the plant is not bad. How humans use it is the problem. All drugs are tools, just because you didnt have the discipline to handle a powerful tool like cocaine doesnt mean its evil or satanic.
Big respect for all the hard working men that are making sure we get the best quality product.
Yeah yo!
a yo
This product is literally white trash creating the same.
One of the best tutorials out there!
You didn't even watch the video, did you.
Great tutorial thanks:)
Thanks for the tutorial. I started growing coca trees in my backyard! Hope this works, I will update you guys later.
Where to get the seeds ?
The war against drugs is like trying to fix a leak in a roof by trying to catch the rain and putting in jail the ones getting wet by the leak instead of really addressing the cause.
Well said
The video the way they present is really impressive 👌. Good work guys 🎉
I find myself in the tranquil depths of a remote Philippine island, about to start my very own coca production lab. I envision reigning supreme in the years to come; for now, I'll be living my life without any worries.
Wow that was one of the most beautiful explosions I've ever seen.
3:53 270,000 barrels at $100 a barrel is $27 million. Not $2 Billion. I appreciate and trust your reporting glaring errors like this should not happen.
Thank you for your supreme knowledge Poindexter.
@@randyboisa6367 sorry you can't comprehend the importance of honest and fact-driven journalism
@@garrettmillard525 your apology accepted
@@randyboisa6367 You're making the internet a worse place by being a keyboard warrior. You would never say that in real life to someone.
270,000 barrels a day
The environment just can’t catch a break 😢.
The planet was here before man, it will still be here after man. Calm down you self absorbed leftoid.
The government provided them with an alternative crop. Giving them a livelihood as well as trying to shutting down Coca farming.
Irony is, after that, with the locals wholeheartedly accepting the alternative plan, the government abandoned them. Thereby ruining the farmers life for an entire cycle of crop harvesting. Hence farmers were forced to go back to farming the Coca.
Hearing that, made me so frustrated. What a shameless government!
Above ground pipelines? Free crude oil? i would never
Maybe the Government should create proper legislation for its country most lucrative crop
Not possible, because unlike regular crops, cocaine causes crime, death, and is a substance you wouldn’t even give to your dog it’s so toxic
whats the point they would make more money without the goverments involvemnt they don't even need to pay tax
Hi guys, to the ones who don't know. The people that get affected the most are the farmers because they are in the lowest part of the production chain. Also if they don't trade the coca leaves (with cartels and illegal armed groups), they can get killed and compromise their family subsistence.
To put things in context: Colombia signed a peace process deal with FARC (2016), the oldest guerrilla in the region. A process that included the subsistence of the people in the corners of the country (the ones who live by growing coca). But in the process president Ivan Duque (2018-2022), didn't implement the deal due to ideological conflicts and lack of political will; arguing that the only way to stop this was by fumigating the coca fields (compromising peoples lifes and the ecosystems around them).
The new president is trying to do something about it, but the issue still going on.
Do you have the recipe?
Asking for a friend.
Legalize and move to commercial taxed production.
This is the way
here in Bogota I've seen what coke and bazuco, do to people hell no
@@wickendiana8310 have you seen what alcohol does?
Working for the drug lobby...
@@sandler800 not nearly as bad
Oil police working directly with companies to take care of pressure losses. Then they burn it. The camera man should have showed the huge spills the oil company's have covered up. They prosecuted anyone that tried to bring attention to it.
thanks for the recipe...
As little damage as possible proceeds to do as much damage as possible 😂
It may be time to look for legitimate and legal alternative uses for coca plants.
The reason is that if there is a lot of other uses for the plant beyond cocaine, then the farmers will take their crops into legitimate areas. Which will actually do alot more damage to drug cartels than current systems being used now.
It won't be perfect by any means, but its hard to make cocaine if the main ingredient is much harder to purchase, because no one wants to sell it to you.
Coca-Cola produces as much as $2BN of pure COCAINE every year in a New Jersey factory. The New Jersey plant receives up to 500 metric tons of coca leaves every year. The New Jersey factory 'decocainizing' the leaves for syrup (the flavoring for Coca-Cola). Then the narcotic is sold on to pharma in the United States. No other company in the US is allowed to import coca and make cocaine..
There's many things that account for this issue
Is not easy to track down this cocaine labs, Colombia is a very big country and most of its population is in the big cities like Bogota and Medellin, so there are few people in these kinds of cities with a lack of opportunities, and dense forests and jungle's, on top of that add the high demand of cocaine from USA and Europe which are the consumers, and then you have the "perfect" business.
Prayers to the coca farmers! The war on drugs is a giant waste of time,money,life's
those wondering why the pipelines are above the ground...even if it was underground the cartels will stilll manage to find them using equipments, and repairing damaged underground pipelines would be tedious and expensive,
Imagine if it wasn't illegal
doubt you've seen what heroin coke and bazuco do to people
People would grow slightly more, the price would slightly fall and a few more people would be able to afford a cocaine addiction.
@@BoliceOccifer that's their choice. but the alternative is creating cartels and criminal enterprises that murder and create havoc in the world. so let the people have their cocaine. either solution is not going to be perfect but that's the world we live in. making it so illegal and warring against drugs will only hurt more and more people, it's proven with prohibition of alcohol and cannabis.
black market would still thrive.
@ treat it the same as alcohol. Do you know anyone selling illegal alcohol? sure it may take some time but eventually everyone will keep it legal. cause why would they jeopardize their freedom when it's already legal or they can make it themselves?
COCAINE'S A HELL OF A DRUG😂😂😂
*ONE hell of a drug
PUT THE PIPELINE IN THE GROUND IT ENDS THE WHOLE THING LMAO 😂
The war on drugs is a lost cause until there are more jobs and opportunites for the people working in it. government should provide substitutes for the more profitable coca crop.
Not just that.. but any war on drugs will always be a lost cause because mankind has always done drugs.
I like how they call it theft but thee company actually stealing in the first place is called business
yeah, strange, huh? /s
I get that there's "money to be made" or whatever, but who the hell is actually agreeing to make all the drugs in the first place? Are they forced to make it at gunpoint or something?
Nowhere in the middle east or else crude oil just simply passes through cities and jungles unguarded like that. Its NOT a water or drain pipeline. How can they leave it unguarded like that in Colombia? Its an state asset that must be under strict protection all the time.
Should have used it for own uses not to just destroy, power some machines or refine and sell for people
"Don't make drugs!! Work 15 hours a day on the coffee farm for $12 per month and pay us half of that in taxes!!!"
Government is more criminal than the coke manufacturers
I agree, let's make taxes illegal too!
@@nicolasgobl6725 might as well. Then maybe people will illegally pay taxes for healthcare and to fund education, as opposed to using the taxes to pay the 6 figure salaries of thousands of old people that sit around and do nothing but pretend to represent the people and litigate.
@@Kiko_888 The thought of illegally paying taxes just made me chuckle a bit. And you do raise a great point about the corrupt politicians.
Let's rally our local governments to make taxes illegal.
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"This mixture extracts compounds from the plant that make cocaine addictive"
Yes, that compound is called cocaine lol
"we're hiding his identity" idk if ur aware but in 2023 the technology has improved a lot more than you think
How does 200,000+ barrels amount to $2billion?
Just like when the cops make a bust... and a few pounds of weed is "drugs worth $30k".
Remember kids don’t do drugs
except heroin
2:21 near the coastal city of Tomaco. Hommer: "mmmmmm..... Tomaco"
"they dont care about the destruction they just want the profit" like alot of people who mine crude oil
The war on drugs will never be won, the only way is decriminalisation. Theres too much dirty money from SA to CA to EU to currently adhere to any kind of laws, so long may the cat and mouse (tiger) continue it will never be won but as long as their seen to make an effort, and the odd bust happens, everyone's happy. :)
The only way to win the drug war is to the government to start providing more help to addicts, as long there are customers the trafficking will never stop.
It's not a War on Drugs, It's a War on the People.
It's not a war on drugs; it's a war on personal freedom, Ok? Keep that in mind at all times, thank you.
@@endokrin7897 Yeah, War on the People. Which would include freedom I would think.
Appreciate the tutorial
I’m curious why they don’t just buy regular gasoline to make cocaine😂
The oil companies need to clean this up. Period.
You can't complain about people stealing your crude if the pipe is above ground and people are starving to death.
Unemployment, inequality, drug issue, illegal refinery, mafia groups and environmental pollution...
OMG
This is absolutely serious.
all of those are right except mafia groups those don't really exist like they used to here in Colombia
@@wickendiana8310 But somehow those groups are operating in different segments right?
As a grown adult and not a teenager, who outgrown weed. I appreciate good cocain every now and then. It would be great if was legal 😂
Remember that Chicken we heard? There it is @11:00 That Broad gave away Francisco"s location in Narino after she said it was a secret.
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