Hello and welcome to the Intelligence, from the Economist, I'm Jason Palmer.

And I'm Aura Ogambi.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

In Colombia, there's a massive glut of coca leaves, thanks to efficiency gains in cocaine

production, political change, and unintended consequences of policy.

Coca's resulting rock bottom price has big consequences for the farmers who grow it.

And English has become the main language of instruction in many countries.

In some places, that's because of colonialism.

In others, like Northern Europe, the adoption of English has seemingly been more conscious.

But now, governments are fighting back.

But fast.

I'm in South Maui right now near the harbor in Malaya.

Aaron Brun is the Economist's West Coast correspondent and reporting from Hawaii.

I just driven from one end of the island to the other to see if any of the roads to the

western part of the island that was burned are open, but they're only open to residents

to go back and see, unfortunately, what may or may not be left of their homes.

Next over a week ago, fires spread down the West Maui Hills bordering the town of Lahaina

that was once a royal city and the capital of the islands.

So this is as close as I can get to Lahaina, which is the historic town that was frankly

incinerated by fires about a week ago.

You can hear it's really windy.

Not as windy as it was the day of the fires.

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