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    Where it all begins: Colombia's peasant farmers and the Pacific drug trade

    The wave of drugs arriving in countries like Fiji starts in the jungles of South America where ‘coca is everything’
    by Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá Jun 26, 2019 2 minutes
    Cocaine base paste at a farm in Colombia. Production is up 17%, with the market in Australia and New Zealand especially lucrative. Photograph: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images

    The cocaine market is booming in Australia and New Zealand, causing ripples throughout the Pacific region. But long before it is snorted in cities such as Sydney or Auckland, the drug is produced by peasant farmers in Colombia, where coca crop output is at record highs.

    In 2017, around 171,000 hectares (423,000 acres) of the

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