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January 16, 2005

Season 1

Three films document the cocaine industry's role in perpetuating poverty, gang violence and civil war in South America.

01. Episode 1

A family of Peruvian farmers struggles to make ends meet by growing coca leaves, which drug manufacturers use to produce cocaine.

49min
January 16, 2005

02. Episode 2

Gangs financed by cocaine sales rule the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Ze, a former gang leader, tries to help his nephew escape a brutal fate.

49min
January 23, 2005

03. Episode 3

Colombia's billion-dollar drug trade fuels a bloody civil war between leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries and a corrupt national government.

49min
January 30, 2005