The Amazon rainforest in southern Colombia stretches lush and green across the horizon, but beneath its dense canopy lies a shifting reality. The southern province of Putumayo – a remote region bordering Ecuador, at the edge of the country’s Amazon – has long been dominated by coca plantations and burdened by the perennial shadow of the country’s armed conflict.

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