Uprawy koki kontrolowane przez kolumbijskich partyzantów - AFP

Nelson Enrique Ríos (2-R), alias Gafas, a former member of the now defunct FARC and current delegate at the dialogue table between the Colombian government and the dissidents, cuts the ribbon during the inauguration of a health centre and delivery of an ambulance, both jointly funded by local communities and the FARC dissident armed rebel faction Central General Staff (EMC), in the village of San Juan del Micay, in Micay Canyon, a mountainous area and EMC stronghold in Cauca Department, southwestern Colombia, on March 24, 2024. Bright green coca plantations blanket the mountainsides of the narrow Micay Canyon, the heartland of Colombia's holdout guerrillas, who rule their fiefdom like a mini-state. Along dirt roads, in makeshift laboratories, farmers openly mix coca leaf with gasoline to extract a paste used to make the pure cocaine that is one of Colombia's top exports. Micay Canyon is a major source of tension in negotiations between the government and the Central General Staff (EMC) rebels who broke away from the FARC when it signed a 2016 peace deal. (Photo by Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP)