Colombia: the new barons of the cocaine
Colombia is fashionable. In 2016, it was host to 5 million foreign tourists, twice as many as 3 years previously. The world is falling for Narcomania. Pablo Escobar may have been killed by the police 25 years ago, but his memory lives on. Top of the box office: the films and TV series that tell the life story of the Medellin cartels boss. Juan Pablo, his eldest son, goes from studio to studio to plug his book. The latest video game hit, Narcos, allows you to relive the life of the Medellin cartels boss. We met a young Frenchman, Jules, a rising DJ and, Christophe, a young Belgian entrepreneur. Like many Europeans, they fell in love with Colombia and decided to settle here. Today, the country is one of the most dynamic in Latin America and one of the least violent since the FARC, which terrorized the country during a 50year war, signed a peace treaty. And yet, Colombia remains the largest producer of cocaine. 34 up on 2015. For two months, we scoured the country in search of what they don
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