Despite a full lockdown in the country, the Colombian government has intensified the manual eradication of coca plants in remote parts of the country.
It is the main ingredient for cocaine and is grown in remote parts of the country by growers who depend on the crop for their livelihood.
Their representatives, and an international coalition of human rights organisations, are demanding a stop to the operations for health reasons.
Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti reports from the capital Bogota.
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In This Story: Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a transcontinental country largely in the north of South America, with territories in North America. Colombia is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, the northwest by Panama, the south by Ecuador and Peru, the east by Venezuela, the southeast by Brazil, and the west by the Pacific Ocean.
The capital is Bogotá, the country’s largest city. With over 50 million inhabitants Colombia is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse countries in the world. The Republic of Colombia was declared in 1886. Panama seceded in 1903.
Colombia’s territory encompasses Amazon rainforest, highlands, grasslands, and deserts, and it is the only country in South America with coastlines and islands along both the Atlantic and Pacific.