CARRYING OF WEAPONS PROHIBITED
Quickly, quickly, go!
-A car is coming! -Get in, get in!
You've got guns, pretty girls, bikes.
You have to harvest coca.
There's no other good work here.
I'm a hitman by trade.
Thanks to this, we educate our children.
For us, he wasn't a boss, he was a god.
I have killed 257 people with my own hands.
Like this and this.
If you do something stupid, you'll be fucked.
A gringo or a whitey...
I'm not sure if we can get past.
What's happened?
The truck's broken down.
If it's dangerous during daytime, imagine how it would be at night.
CARRYING OF WEAPONS PROHIBITED
Two minutes.
-Hello. -We are crossing near the meeting point.
It will be better if you come past slowly.
A car is coming.
Here's the car.
How shall we get out?
Don't look at them.
A car is coming.
Get in, get in.
Quickly.
Are you coming or not?
Are you coming?
Okay, we'll wait for you.
Eighteen kilos.
Fifteen years.
We are doing it to support our families.
There's no help from the government
and we're poor.
This helps us to feed our families.
My family doesn't know. I don't want to worry my children.
They just think I work at a farm.
A builder.
No.
We are always at risk, this work isn't safe.
I've seen too many things.
I'll fight with this,
and if they take it from me, I'll grab a rock.
If they take the rock, I'll fight with my hands.
If they fight with my hands then with my teeth.
If they take my life, my spirit will always speak for the coca leaf.
You have to harvest coca.
Yes, lots.
We pay little.
Harvesting is done like this.
He's doing it.
All year, every three months.
Whilst with coffee, it's just once a year and the price of coffee is falling.
Yes, I earn much more money.
Ninety percent of this crop and the whole of VRAEM goes for cocaine production.
We can't hide from that.
Forgive me for being so frank, but this valley would be in chaos.
The profits enable us to send our children to school.
We wouldn't be able to do that if we only relied on other crops.
Eighty percent of the people here would have to leave
and find other ways to make a living.
So-so...
I'd like you to stay here with me and harvest coca every day.
If you worked here every day, your skin would be damaged.
Our hands are hard, tough like this.
But yours...
like a little girl's.
We have a remedy,
you put urine on them
and then your hand is always used to it.
Uh-huh. It's basic paste, but milled.
With love from Peru.
We're using the press to take out the impurities.
Open the door.
Almost six years.
I want to have my own business.
So I'm saving up to open a hardware shop.
One day, I started doing this because I got a woman pregnant.
We needed the money.
Yes, she does.
As long as I bring money to the house, she doesn't mind.
No, because this work has bad consequences as well as good.
It's psychologically damaging.
You're worried about the police and thieves.
You don't know when you might be killed or when you'll end up in jail.
Ninety-five percent pure.
Five hundred Soles.
Down over there are three people who are police informers.
Around here,
people don't look like you
and whoever might see you can get the whole village to rise against you.
-That's for hair? -Yes, it's a coca shampoo.
Jason, nice to meet you. I'm Colonel Colmenares.
I'm boss of the Anti-drugs Special Operations Division
of Palmapampa, VRAEM. Welcome.
It's great to have you here to show you the work that the National Police do
against the narcos in this part of the VRAEM.
Here we are able to pray to God.
This is the weapons store.
He was in the English Special Forces.
We are currently reduced to ten men and me.
We just had a shootout with the narcoterrorists.
We are in constant contact with them.
When they are 100 percent recovered, the will join us again
and take part in our operations.
Foxy, we know you were in the Special Forces
and we would like you to have a go.
These are the shots from your rifle.
Well done. That muscle memory always stays with you
and that was classic Special Forces.
We'll be split into Team Alpha, Team Bravo and Team Charlie.
Team Alpha will be the assault group...
POLICE
There is a maceration lab in that direction.
Let's go.
Uh, Foxy, this is what's used in the pit.
People chew it.
It makes your mouth numb.
People chew it so they don't get hungry.