Colombia is the world’s largest producer of Coca, the plant used to make Cocaine and thousands of Colombian farmers earn their livelihoods from it, after value addition (turning it into cocaine) and taking it to the world’s biggest markets.

Like the Miraa in Kenya, the Coca leaf is chewed as a mild stimulant for focus and alertness, used in medicinal anaesthesia, as a flavoring agent, among others.

Coca is so widespread in Colombia that in the growing regions, several cottage factories have sprung up behind homes and in forests for the sole purpose of turning it to cocaine.

Colombian Presidents have been unable to deal with it because the plant earns the country more in export revenue than even legal exports not to mention the risk of angering the thousands of farmers.

Colombia is one big cocaine factory, the reason the country has produced the world’s richest and most lethal cartels like the Medellin cartel, Cali and then Clan del Golfo among others which has branches all over the World

Colombia has also produced the richest and most vicious World Drug Lords like Pablo Escobar, Carlos, Blanco and the most lethal GRANDMOTHER of cocaine, Blanco Griselda

Griselda Blanco was in a class of her own. She is the only woman known to have made it to the top 10 list of the wealthiest and most ruthless. As cocaine Queenpin, Blanco left colombia and illegally entered the United States settling in Miami to control the market directly.

While Pablo Escobar feared no one, he famously said that, “The only man l was afraid of was a woman named Blanco Griselda.”

The United States captured Blanco in 1985 , tried her and jailed her for 20 years. On her release, they deported her to Colombia where a motorbike hit man eliminated her as she left a butchery.

Now Trump has warned Gustavo Petro the Colombian President that his country is not going to be a factory anymore. “Not for long”, he said, “if he doesn’t wise up. He will be the next”.

I hope President Petro is listening and is gonna “Wise Up”.