Santa Cruz is Bolivia’s largest and wealthiest city but it’s also become a centre for the country’s thriving illegal drugs trade. Bolivia is now the world’s third largest producer of cocaine and it’s also a key transit country for trafficking. All this is leading to a spike in violent crime.
Human Rights
Cocaine: History between the Lines
Dan Collyns worked as the Peru producer on this feature-length History Channel documentary about the cocaine trade. Toby Barraud of NFGTV hired Dan to get the inside track on the drugs war at source.
The Art of Truth
For CCTV Americas Now, Dan Collyns takes us to Peru, where four non-actors have come together linked only by the dramatic events that shaped their early lives. In the 1980s and 1990s an internal conflict raged in Peru between communist gorillas and the state. Hyper inflation and bad governing also affected the country. The play is a way for the actors to express how they were affected during these events.