Colombia Teodolfo Lopez

Teodolfo López, a native of the agricultural department of Cauca located in the southwestern Colombia is called Almaguer. According to the ONU, El Cauca is one of the departments with the highest illicit cultivation of coca leaf, raw material for the production of cocaine, which that has turned this department into one of the hardest hit by the Colombian armed conflict between the public forces, who by order of the Colombian government seeks to eradicate these crops, and armed groups to the outside the law, who seek control of this illegal activity. Nevertheless, Because this department is the one with the largest indigenous population in Colombia, these coca leaf crops are also part of the aboriginal cultures, who prepare their ancestral remedies and food based on this product, whose cultivation is illegal by order of the Colombian state.

From a very young age, Teodolfo learned all the farm work because he His parents were engaged in agriculture on several farms in the region, such as the Most of the Cauca, the
most common crop because it generated income, was that of coca, for this reason since he was 8 years old Teodolfo already knew the step through its production.
…”Those were difficult times, people lived in great fear, when the guerrilla we hid as it were, we always ran away and they constantly came, they made calls to all the young people to enter is their ranks, the most beautiful women showed us their weapons trying to get our attention, but we never wanted to be a part of this,  We never felt obligated and even though they promised things, my parents always,They instilled in us another path.”