Southern Colombia is the cocaine producing capital of the world. Drug farms have attracted leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries whose brutal fight to control narcotics resources is destroying the social fabric of the region. Colombia has been scorched by war for decades, but in the last ten years violence has taken an accelerated path in the form of daily civilian massacres carried out by both guerrillas and paramilitaries. The war's most regular victims are non-combatants coerced into some kind of business relationship with a given faction and then accused as collaborators by the other side.
