The Cocaine Factory

1. lynne
   October 15th, 2008 at 9:59 am

   ...My goodness.Gasoline?Caustic soda?Is that where the phrase...'i got some mind blowin'charlie' comes from?
   Seriously though,those communities of people must live in absolute fear.All that amongst the beautiful backdrop.
   Great post.

2. Max Power
   October 15th, 2008 at 10:39 am

   Say what you want, that man seemed nice.

3. Pol x
   October 15th, 2008 at 10:53 am

   I know someone who insists they can tell when it's been made with petrol and when they used diesel.

   idiot.

4. Jeremy
   October 15th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

   I enjoyed the backdrop of white people taking pictures like they were at disneyland or the zoo. Probably posted it to their facebook page along with a link to an article from this american life.

5. CheeseDuck
   October 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

   What. Add to my list of things Neatorama taught me.
   "How to Make Cocaine"

6. ted
   October 15th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

   Coming up, Lonely Planet goes to Thailand to see how child prostitutes live.

7. su.wei
   October 15th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

   i wonder if the farmer had any repercussions from showing his face on this show?

   he did seem like a good man

8. seekshelter
   October 15th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

   wow... now i know how to make cocaine.... so was that like a tour to the hershey factory with samples at the end?

9. Carlos Forero
   October 15th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

   Damn, I'm from Colombia. The drugs problem is hard, but the cities aren't violent. You people around the world, please don't buy drugs, you are giving dollars to narcos, guerrillas and paramilitar forces, if you stop the drug consume, Colombia will be a beauty and peaceful country.

10. Thomas
    October 15th, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    Carlos, I wish it was that easy, but as long as cocaine is addictive and gets you high, people are going to do it. Now, if the US actually wanted cocaine off our streets and Columbia to be safe and free of the cocaine trade, it would have been done by now.

11. Ali S.
    October 15th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    @ su.wei

    That's what I was wondering! This guy obviously works for some really dangerous and violent people and the film makers didn't bother to at least censor his face? Did they even think to do so to protect the man who obviously looks like a nice old man from perhaps serving as a lesson to the community by the narcos not to film their cocaine production? If not that is some shoddy and poor thinking on their part.

12. Jessa
    October 15th, 2008 at 11:42 pm

    Poor guy doesn't even like his job

13. renderanything
    October 15th, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    Nasty stuff.
    Is is just me, or did the explanatory captions go by way too fast? Not that I'm taking notes or anything.

14. NicoNico
    October 15th, 2008 at 11:51 pm

    What a waste of good coca leaves. I've had coca leaf tea before, and it was very good as an aspirin. This only proves my point to people that coca does NOT equal cocaine, as many people seem to think. Coca is a natural product used by many people in my father's home country (Bolivia) and should not be restricted and burned all because people decide they want to mix harmful materials with it to make a buck.

15. tt
    October 16th, 2008 at 1:40 am

    LOL 4 years of studying spanish i only recognised one sentence..
    "te gusta trabajas?"
    "no"
    lol!!
    aww poor guy..
    he doesnt like his job.. lol..
    [im not american btw.. hence not knowing much spanish]

16. Skysurfer
    October 16th, 2008 at 10:24 am

    Subtitles would be awesome, otherwise it's all Spanish to me...

17. Peeves
    October 17th, 2008 at 3:40 am

    Right..half the video is Spanish and even if you spoke Spanish, the dialect is unique and the sound is bad (especially with the Americans oohing and ahhing because they're proud they understood him).

    And yeah, some of the text went away way too quickly but that's why I love the pause button.

18. MoonCake
    October 26th, 2008 at 11:30 am

    NicoNico-- isn't it a shame that some of the world's best herbs are made illegal because people want to turn them into addictive substances?

19. James Moss
    December 26th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    I have tertiary syphilis.

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