Those subsidies are irrelevant compared to the incentives to grow illegal crops and those incentives are artificially created by the their illegality.
What we have here is not a "corrupt government, that tries to suppress the local population and maintain the corrupt drugs based economy" that is propaganda. It is just a weak government that hasn't been able to control those criminals.
While this is kept illegal the only thing Colombia can do is to make things difficult for them, hoping that production moves to some other country
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Those subsidies are irrelevant compared to the incentives to grow illegal crops and those incentives are artificially created by the their illegality. What we have here is not a "corrupt government, that tries to suppress the local population and maintain the corrupt drugs based economy" that is propaganda. It is just a weak government that hasn't been able to control those criminals. While this is kept illegal the only thing Colombia can do is to make things difficult for them, hoping that production moves to some other country
And corruption, deforestation, damage to the environment... you have to be a Colombian to understand this problem.