Unreported World (2000) Season 2025 Episode 7

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00:00Tonight's Unreported World is from Colombia's Catatumbo region,

00:04where fragile hopes for peace are collapsing back into war.

00:08Here, drug syndicates and guerrilla factions fight for control of coca fields and smuggling routes,

00:14trapping thousands of civilians in a war with no end in sight.

00:18Reporter Guillermo Galdós gains rare access to one of the rebel groups accused of escalating the violence,

00:24the military, sent to restore stability, and the mothers fighting to protect their children from being recruited into the conflict.

00:34On the edge of Colombia, where the mountains meet Venezuela, lies the region of El Catatumbo.

00:40This land is so beautiful. Difficult to imagine that a war has been fought here for over 60 years.

00:48Here, the army battles to retake ground from rival militias fighting for control of the coca trade.

00:56In recent months alone, over 50,000 people have been displaced.

01:03We tracked down Colombia's largest guerrilla group, accused of reigniting the latest violence.

01:09¡Volta! ¡Volta!

01:10Mientras el Estado no tenga una política de paz, la guerra y el conflicto en Colombia va a continuar.

01:15And we followed the women on the front line, risking everything to protect their children from war.

01:21Mi lucha ha sido porque las madres no pierdan a sus hijos.

01:26This is Cúcuta, a gateway for cocaine heading to international markets.

01:49For decades, Colombia has been at war with FARC, a marxist armed group that once controlled nearly a third of the country.

01:59A 2016 peace deal led to FARC laying down its arms.

02:04But today, new rebel groups have emerged, and the Colombian army is battling to retake areas under their control.

02:11And in the middle of it all, it's women who are stepping forward, holding together their communities.

02:21Carmen Garcia lost her husband at the height of Colombia's drug war in 2008.

02:27And today, she turns that grief into resistance.

02:30He's called Javier Leonardo Franco.

02:37¿Qué edad tenía él cuando lo mataron?

02:3928 años.

02:40Joven.

02:41Yo tenía 21 años y ya teníamos cuatro hijos.

02:46Lo mató quien tenía que proteger lo que era el Estado colombiano, el ejército nacional.

02:52Lamentablemente eso pasa en Colombia.

02:53¿La gente que lo mató los metiste presos?

02:55Sí, claro, pero no resistí. No doblegué. Seguí luchando.

03:00Cuando ya se firmaron los acuerdos de paz, ellos declararon todo lo que habían hecho.

03:05¿Tú preferiste la verdad que la justicia?

03:09Yo preferí la verdad.

03:12Her husband, Javier, was among thousands of civilians killed in Colombia's so-called falsos positivos,

03:20executed by soldiers and falsely reported as guerrillas.

03:23Violence east after 2016, but civilians are being hunted again, this time not by the army,

03:32but by the rebel groups.

03:35The Colombian army once feared is now trying to protect civilians on fighting rebel groups

03:42on multiple fronts, yet unable to reclaim territory.

03:46En el 2016 se firmó un proceso de paz con las FARC y el mundo pensó que Colombia finalmente vería la paz.

03:54Hubo integrantes de las FARC que no creyeron en el proceso por una u otra razón,

04:00pero esa razón siempre los lleva a seguir en negocios de narcotráfico.

04:04Y todos los muertos que han habido en Catatumbo, los desplazados,

04:08todas las amenazas de la población han sido por el interés de estos grupos en la cocaína.

04:12Y con tecnología rewriting la regla de la guerra, el conflicto entra en una nueva fase.

04:18Ahora, con el empleo de drones que ha cambiado tanto, la dinámica,

04:23ellos de manera indiscriminada emplean drones, enjambres de drones,

04:26los unos contra los otros, sin importarles si hay civiles, sin importarles si hay casas,

04:31sin importarles si hay escuelas,

04:33tratando de ganar el territorio de control de los corredores de movilidad de narcotráfico.

04:37The United States recently ruled that the Colombian government

04:41was failing to cooperate in the drug war,

04:44putting the military under pressure to deliver stability.

04:59Hidden in the vast landscape beneath us is the stronghold of the ELN,

05:04Colombia's largest remaining guerrilla group.

05:07and the 33rd Front, who broke away from FARC.

05:11The battle between the rebel groups and the army

05:14has driven out thousands of civilians from El Catatumbo.

05:18More than 50,000 people have fled

05:20and are still unable to return home.

05:25I'm traveling with Carmen deep into El Catatumbo

05:28to see why people have fled this area

05:31and talk to those who remain.

05:32She works with the body, an indigenous group living in this region,

05:37who escort us along these lawless roads.

05:41Across checkpoints that mark every path,

05:44we carry a white flag, a fragile shield,

05:47in the wild west of Colombia.

05:49Most people have fled this village,

05:53but Victoria remains.

05:55Her son, who led the community council,

05:58was forced to flee after armed groups targeted community leaders.

06:02Well, they say that they are afraid to come back,

06:05they are afraid to come back there.

06:06They look at the neighbor and there.

06:08They don't live there, but they say that they have three big children,

06:14and that they take them back and they take them back.

06:16And that's why they died.

06:18There are a lot of families that have not returned

06:20so that they have children and the young people,

06:22and the fear of this fight,

06:25that the groups are in confrontation,

06:26they are dying, and reclutin' a more children

06:29to take them back to the confrontation.

06:32How do you feel since your son is not here?

06:34I'm thinking about it every day.

06:37I feel like I'm with you.

06:42But I feel like I have a lot of people

06:44that are here from the distance.

06:47I'm not alone.

06:49I'm always going to be here.

06:50I'm going to be here.

06:51So, you know,

06:51that while I'm in here,

06:52I'm always going to be here with you.

06:59In the way to here,

07:00there is no guarantee

07:01of safety to be able to return

07:04and there is no plan for the moment.

07:07As we travel deeper, checkpoints manned by armed groups decide who passes and at what price.

07:30This place has been going through war through the last six decades. It's incredible to think that

07:36the indigenous communities around here, they haven't had a single day of peace.

07:45After a nine hour drive, we are here, delivering food and medicine to a community who haven't had help

07:53since the war restarted last January.

08:06Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

08:18Once free to move across El Catatumbo, the body now face displacement, force recruitment, killing,

08:26and the destruction of the land. Trapped between rebel groups and a state that offers little support.

08:32These are the very people the rebels claim to fight for, yet they are the ones paying the highest price.

08:40We, the Barí, always have this tradition.

08:45It's called the purification of my soul and my spirit.

08:49For me, you are always the ancestors of this land, because this is your land, and you are not going to move here.

09:02What can we do?

09:04It's good to talk about the conversation with the high government, and we are not going to start this war.

09:11The peace agreement was meant to bring protection and change, but many of its promises, rural reform,

09:31and land redistribution were delayed or abandoned.

09:45This small school is a fragile sign of resilience, yet mothers live in fear as rebel groups prowl for new recruits.

09:54We had the news of a girl who was recruited from the Barí, and we did the search for immediately.

10:04It affected us in a way that they were persecuted without knowing why.

10:08They had a forced recruitment, but thanks to them they were able to recover and they were with the family.

10:14The armed group, the helenos, we have prohibited hunting, fishing, fishing, that they don't walk in the night.

10:28We have limited the things that we did, and they can't send them here because this is our territory.

10:40Do you worry about the economic problems that can affect the young people and that they go to the war?

10:50It's complicated because there are boys who look at their parents economically, who don't have money.

10:59So the boys look at that the good way can be with the armed groups, and they go.

11:10Three young people from this community of only 20 families have recently joined the rebel groups,

11:18and many fear poverty and desolation will draw more down the same path.

11:24Like 17-year-old Andrejson, caught between hopes for a better future and the pool of armed groups around him.

11:32At his side, his father, who confronted the armed men and negotiated his release.

11:40He took that path and decided to leave the studio to one side.

11:54What attracted you to that world?

11:56What did you think of going to that world?

11:58The uniform, the uniform, the uniform and the feral.

12:02And at the moment, I was at the moment, I got to say, no, no, I'm more free and I have my own investments and what I am going to achieve.

12:15You've had the chance that you have a father like the one you have, who went to look for.

12:19But they don't have the fault of that the war is to attract or attract them.

12:28Each generation grows up carrying the same burden.

12:35The threat of eviction from the land by the rebel groups, few economic options, no future to call their own.

12:44There is no shortage of one thing here, coca, the plant driving this war.

12:49El Catatumbo is Colombia's largest coca region with over 40% of the local economy tied to cocaine.

13:03This plant is sacred in Latin America and it's incredible how the mafia and the organized crime

13:11has turned into a diabolical element that is ruining societies, ruining communities, ruining countries.

13:22As coca production expands, farmers have few alternatives to make a living.

13:27Afraid of rebel groups and the army, they speak only anonymously.

13:31How long have you been working on this?

13:33How long have you been working on this, brother?

13:35Approximately 23 years old.

13:38That's what we survive.

13:41That's what we support here in the Catatumbo area.

13:46Because these lands are good for these plants.

13:52There is no other work that helps us to move forward.

13:59What do you think of that war is taking control of this, just like this?

14:06It's unjust.

14:08I think it's unjust because, as we all, at least the campers, we live and we don't kill ourselves

14:15because one has two aitarias and the other has three, I think that the armed groups

14:20would not have to kill themselves for that.

14:23And it's been difficult to hold everything.

14:25It's been difficult to live with fear of our siblings, of our children,

14:28and of our husbands.

14:30What do you think of that plant has become cocaine?

14:38And there are other people who are addicted to that drug.

14:41One thinks it's one because one also has a child.

14:44But one does not do it with the purpose of doing damage to anyone,

14:48but with the purpose of practically surviving one, and that the families of one's families survive.

14:52The big winners in all these are the rebel groups.

15:01By controlling the roots, they gain power, money, and influence far beyond these fields.

15:07The ELN, one of the groups refusing to lay down arms, is tightening its grip here,

15:18accused of recruiting teenagers, killing opponents, and driving people from the land.

15:24They've been fighting the government for over 60 years.

15:29And Washington has designated them as a terrorist organization

15:33that profits from drug trafficking.

15:35Actually, you can see the places carpeted with coca.

15:39I've come here to ask them why is that they're still at war.

15:42But now you can see the people who are fighting the enemy of the country.

15:55After weeks of negotiations, we are taken to Silvana Guerrero,

15:59one of Colombia's most wanted, and led deep into the jungle to one of their hidden camps.

16:05You well know that we are convinced that today's struggle is triple in existence for the reality that we see today.

16:15It is important that you know that as well as the Colombian people and the majority put a grain of hope

16:23that with the government of Petro could have a change, unfortunately, the Colombian people

16:29and we, who are part of the Colombian people, of that society, we are in a stage of disillusionment.

16:37Aviation.

16:39Turn your line.

16:43Cover them, cover them, cover them, cover them, cover them, cover them down the trees.

16:51They want to cover themselves under the trees because we can hear that there is a plane going on top

16:58and they don't want to be seen.

17:03The conflict between the ELN and FARC's 33rd Front has left both sides needing more recruits,

17:10pulling teenagers into the fight.

17:14I joined the 16th anniversary of the injustice I saw in the village where I lived in Catatumbo

17:21to fight for education.

17:24Tell me something, have you been in combat?

17:26Yes, I was in combat with the 1333 of the disillusionment.

17:31How was it?

17:32It was a bit difficult for the new technology that they handle with drones.

17:39Because it was a war that nobody expected.

17:44Have you had colleagues who died during the war?

17:47Yes, of course.

17:48It has been very hard because one does not want to happen.

17:54But our problem is liberation and a step back.

18:01Liberation or death and a step back.

18:03For this generation, war defines the present and threatens the future.

18:16Flanked by her fighters, Silvana, once a school teacher, has spent her life fighting against a state she sees as the enemy.

18:24No man and no woman who is part of the National Liberation Army will hear that they are here because they like war.

18:33Because they like peace.

18:34In this case, for me as a woman and as a mother, it is painful.

18:38It is painful.

18:39If you talk to each of those young boys today, they want that voluntary contribution here in the UN for the change.

18:48So that there is a different future for other young people.

18:52And there is also a recruitment of young people.

18:57So there is no recruitment in the UN.

19:00There is a conscious and voluntary incorporation.

19:04We determined that from the 16 years in advance,

19:08a colleague or a colleague is aware of this contribution to this life project.

19:15The UN has also been accused of trafficking of drugs,

19:19of being involved with the CARTEL DE LOS SOLES in Venezuela.

19:24We were willing to make a commission of the UN,

19:31the legal representative of the UN,

19:33to enter the territory and prove that the UN has no connection with the drug trafficking,

19:40no tracks, no laboratories.

19:43But that stayed there because the Colombia state is the least interested in dealing with drugs.

19:51Because of the challenges between the UN and the FARC,

19:56at the beginning of the year,

19:58thousands of families were displaced.

20:02Is the UN responsible?

20:04We are responsible for being one of the actors that are in the line of combat.

20:11But what we have been saying is that it does not correspond to the numbers that are given,

20:16because the people are displaced,

20:19they return to the houses, to the territory.

20:23When these fights happen,

20:25while the state does not have a peace policy,

20:28the war and the conflict in Colombia will continue.

20:30Convinced of the struggle,

20:35they refuse to lay down their arms in what they call liberation,

20:40in a war with no end in sight.

20:44We return to Cucuta to meet mothers who lost everything when the war fled again in January.

20:54But despite the ELN's promises to protect them,

20:58many still feel it's not safe enough to return home.

21:01Carmen built a refuge for displaced women,

21:13a home standing against the same violence that tore her family apart.

21:17Some say the families were targeted on suspicion of belonging to a rival rebel group.

21:32Others were threatened with recruitment.

21:34But we are not displaced,

21:35because of the threat and recruitment for my children.

21:39I imagine you felt scared of having to leave everything,

21:42and running running away.

21:43I have no fear,

21:45that I can't leave it.

21:49I still feel that fear, that coldness.

21:53It's something that you try to forget,

21:56you try to leave everything behind,

21:57you don't think about it,

21:59but the memories always arrive.

22:01Are you also displaced?

22:04Yes, sir.

22:05Why did you get displaced?

22:07I was displaced because my friend killed me.

22:12That's why I had to leave everything.

22:15I couldn't go back that same day to my house,

22:18for what happened to him.

22:20It's a condemnation,

22:22being mothers in Catatumbo.

22:24They not only kill our children,

22:26they kill us,

22:27they kill the soul of us,

22:29they kill the lives of our children,

22:30because mothers do not recover.

22:33There is no cure for the pain

22:35of the loss of a child in our territory.

22:46They have lost homes, husbands and children,

22:49but not their will to endure.

22:50In their voices lies the memory of a country still searching for peace.

23:03I'm really shocked by the stories of horror and pain that these mothers have told me.

23:08The majority of them cannot go back to the territories they've been displaced together with their kids.

23:16But what really surprises me is the resilience that they've shown.

23:21It's really inspiring.

23:22It's really inspiring.

23:23I don't know.

23:24I don't know.

23:26It is a matter of.

23:27Look at the hand!

23:29Look at the hand!

23:31What else is waiting for us after everything we have lived?

23:57To be continued...

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