Cocaine Used in place of Money Guerima, Columbia!
In the town of Guerima, Columbia, 1 gram of cocaine is used for buying a bottle of soda. Cocaine has replaced their already faulty currency system. I wonder what’d happen if they did that in the U.S…(probably chaos)
Countless ordinary people depend on the coca trade. “We are sitting on a mountain of coca and a series of Farc ‘IOUs’ “, said one local. “We need the rebels back to pay the debts and buy the coca, otherwise the town will die.”
No money has reached Guerima for months and transactions are conducted in coca, with one gram enough to buy a soft drink.
Tags: chaos, coca trade, columbia, currency system, debts, farc, gram of cocaine, ious, money, ordinary people, rebels, soda, soft drink, telegraph
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