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Just click the link in the show description a generation has passed and all of the deaths because of this futile drug war that we know we cannot win.

I've asked people, what does victory even look like in the drug war?

I don't know what victory looks like.

And it's hard for them to describe as well because what I mean there's going not be any cocaine left.

But on the other hand as long as cocaine is illegal, Columbia will never know peace. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts. Hello, welcome to war college. I'm Matthew Galt. And I'm Jason Field.

Cocaine is the second most popular illicit drug in the world,

and it's controlled by a black market regulated by violence.

As America's drug war edges closer to its 50th year, there is no end in sight.

The conflict's fuels have expanded to an unprecedented scale and cocaine remains incredibly profitable.

Here to talk to us today about cartels and cocaine is Toby Muse.

Muse is a journalist and a documentarian whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times,

and CNN. He has just published the new book, Kilo, inside the

deadliest cocaine cartels from the jungles to the streets. Sir, thank you so much for joining

us. Thank you for having me on. It's a pleasure.

As we like to do on the show, I want to do some really basic stage setting here at the top.

So can you tell us, there's been some changes in the last side, say five years and kind of the cartel and cocaine trade and a lot of it

centers around the internal politics of Columbia and around the FARC specifically.

Oh can you kind of tell us who the FARC are and what has happened recently that has changed the way cocaine is produced and sold?

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