Shotguns and Accordions

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Brass bands play for the dead in the graveyard. (0:01)

References to production and trade in cocaine and marijuana and their influence on the local culture and economy.

Military destroy coca plants. (0:19)

Men use what appears to be a poporo, a small container of lime transferred to the mouth with a stick to enhance absorption of cocaine when chewing coca leaves. (0:20, 0:22)

Guillermo Mejia tells us the drug producers "mixed marijuana with all sorts of..., roots, leaves, horse..., anything that came to hand." (0:28)

Police or military destroy bales of drugs. (0:41)

Bereavement | cannabis | cocaine | cut