By 2019, the number had almost tripled to 9.7%. In 2013, some 3.5% of Colombians said they had taken an illegal substance, according to the state statistics agency. (Eric VANDEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) ‘Billion-dollar industry’ Medellin Cartel cocaine traffickers arrested by Colombian police in 1988 in Bogota, Colombia. Researchers estimate the figure is now closer to 800. Morales’ downfall started at a “vice plaza” - drug vending points that numbered about 160 in Medellín 10 years ago, according to police. “The truth is that one is less cautious and it can cause you to do stupid things,” said Morales, who lost his job because of his drug habit.įour brief months later, all his worldly belongings fit into a worn briefcase, and he often sleeps rough. His hands shaking, 32-year-old Morales inhaled a dose in a public park, using a pipe fashioned from a PVC tube, even as pedestrians and police milled around. Even on the floor you find drugs,” said Manue Morales, an unemployed engineer and chronic user of basuco, the cheapest drug on the market.īasuco is derived from the coca leaf also used to make cocaine, and mixed with other low-grade substances. Junkies frequent hundreds of sales points dotted around Colombia’s second city, which has become the epicentre of the domestic drug trade. Three decades after cartel boss Pablo Escobar was shot dead by police on a rooftop in Medellín, the city he had sought to uplift with drug money is being ravaged by it. Pablo Escobar, the godfather of the Medellin Cartel in Colombia in February, 1988.
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