US ships and planes are stalking drug-traffickers with deadly attacks in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Yet what is the actual impact of this military offensive on the large quantities of drugs that typically leave Colombia every day?
None, say experts and sources, in areas overwhelmed by coca leaf crops in the country that produces the most cocaine in the world.
In the conflict-ridden border with Venezuela or the rebel-held Micay Canyon in the southwest, the drug trade continues at its normal pace according to local residents.
At least eight attacks ordered by the Donald Trump administration in international waters have left around 30 dead, some of them Colombians, according to Washington.
According to som
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