How to pronounce“Colombia”in English

Far away in Colombia’s capital, Bogota, the government has been trying for decades to curb this problem.

cut off from Colombia’s mainstream economies.

This not only saved one of Colombia’s most important industries, but turned it into one dominated by small-holder farmers.

It sparked a crisis around 2009, when extreme weather and coffee rust decimated Colombia’s crop.

It’s a Friday evening and I’m at a police base that’s right at the cusp of Colombia’s vast Amazon rainforest.

It’s these families who are most affected by the cocaine economy and it's these families who are caught in the middle of Colombia's war on drugs.

As coffee prices recovered, Colombia’s small-holder coffee farmers started thriving.

The most important one was in 1962, when Colombia signed the International Coffee Agreement with 69 other countries and set a price minimum for export.

But over time, new technologies, political unrest, and foreign businesses start reshaping the village — many of them real historical events, like Colombia’s War of a Thousand Days.

This is Colombia at some of its most rural.