UNREPORTED WORLD 8/10: Cocaine City

November 1st, 2007 by Lisa McGarry. Tags:

Friday 2 November 2007
7:35pm

In this week’s Unreported World , reporter Hamida Ghafour and producer James Brabazon travel to one of the strangest, wildest cities on earth: Buenaventura, on Colombia’s Pacific coast. There is little running water or electricity in Buenaventura and housing is so scarce that people have constructed whole neighbourhoods of shacks built on stilts. Yet, over the last two years violent death has become an everyday fact in this city of around 300,000 people. Everyone is affected, almost everyone has lost someone.

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