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.
Drugs
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.
On the front line of Peru’s drugs war
Peru’s cocaine producers are becoming increasingly efficient and the country’s coca leaf coverage is practically on a par with Colombia’s.
Anti-drug police carry out raids on the jungle drugs laboratories in an effort to disrupt production of the ‘white gold’.
The BBC’s Dan Collyns accompanied them on a mission to destroy the drug producing equipment.