Colombia, the world’s largest producer of cocaine, has been on the frontline in the global war on drugs for the past 30 years, living through the terror wrought by the powerful Medellín cartel in the 1980s and 90s then efforts to choke off the source of the cocaine by targeting growers through the US-backed Plan Colombia.

 

Jungle Wars follows a group of local guerrilla fighters trying to take back their lands and protect their families from the remaining Colombian drug lords who will stop at nothing to protect their business.

 

The UN's war on drugs is a failure.  It's time for a different approach.