The Promised Land: Cocaine And Faith In The Amazon ( Full Length)

Peru is now the worlds main supplier of coca, the raw plant material used to manufacture cocaine. In the last five years, coca production has grown the most in the triborder region, an area deep in the Amazon where Colombia, Brazil and Peru meet. The triborder region is home to a messianic sect with apocalyptic beliefs whose members dress in biblical robes. Known as Israelites, the religious group migrated to the Peruvian Amazon in 1995 in search of a promised land that s now infested with coca planta