On Sept. 26, 2013, Saiumi Yasumi, 4, peeks out from a pile of coca leaves as her mother Magali Rua Gonzalez, 25, who holds her 8-month-old daughter Astrid, uses her feet to spread out coca leaves on a tarpaulin, in the village of Los Angeles in Peru’s Pichari district. The country’s anti-drug strategy includes trying to persuade coca farmers to grow alternatives such as cacao and coffee. But coca is easier and cheaper to grow. It can be harvested four times a years and farmers don’t have to worry about getting it to market.
九月二十六日,在祕魯皮加里區的洛杉磯村,四歲的薩烏米從一堆古柯葉中探出頭來向外窺看,他二十五歲的母親瑪嘉麗用腳攤開防水布上的古柯葉,手上還抱著八個月大的女兒艾絲翠。祕魯的反毒策略包括設法說服種古柯葉的農人改種其他農作物,如可可和咖啡。不過,古柯葉好種,又省成本,而且一年可收成四次,農人們也不用擔心沒市場。編譯/楊慧莉