Drying the Waters (1999) - Incredible footage from inside Colombia's guerilla territory lays bare the humanitarian toll of this country blighted with violence and greed. Subscribe to Journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=8957 Deep in guerrilla territory drug growers’ tip their precious harvest of coca leaves into a worn oil drum. In their warehouse laboratory they sweat until their mulching and stirring yields a sack of white gold: raw cocaine. In this territory, such rich rewards must be shared with the guerrilla. With calculator and log book a FARC guerrilla calculates their cut. A high-ranking member of FARC command defends their use of drug money. "It isn't true that we are a drug cartel. As there is a war tax in Colombia against the guerrilla, paid by the powerful, we also charge with a war tax, but we do it to defend the poor class in Colombia" There are now one and a half million displaced persons in Colombia with no end to the war in sight. FARC already control 40% of the country and they’re gunning for more. “We've won our space...we're closer to the cities…logically, the course of the fight has to be in that direction," says a high ranking member of FARC’s command. In the next few weeks Bogota itself could come under attack. A former general predicts the day when Colombia will be split between a guerrilla controlled South and an army held North. With huge political and historical insight, this powerful documentary delves into the reality of Colombia’s brutal civil war. ICARO - Ref. 607 Every week Journeyman offers a brand new documentary, fresh out of the cutting room. They're award winning documentaries, some destined for the festival circuit and some for broadcast. The one thing you can know is that here you get to see them when they're fresh, often before they appear anywhere else. To watch them in full go to our VOD platform at http://jman.TV

• published: 29 Apr 2015
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