With a lack of state support, farmers interested in moving out of the coca trade are often exposed to FARC dissidents and other criminal groups, who have rushed to fill the vacuum left by demobilizing FARC units and want farmers to continue tending
coca bushes.
«So if it's no - man's land and you see your neighbor's now got waist - high
coca bushes, and they're two years old and nobody's messed with him, it's probably pretty tempting to grow it yourself,» Isacson said.