VIDEO. "I cooked cocaine in Colombian labs": Rodrigo Lara Bonilla's son continues his father's fight against drug trafficking

His father died in 1984 under the bullets of the killers of the Medellin cartel while he was accompanied by a dozen bodyguards.

Rodrigo Lara Bonilla's fault was to have wanted to attack the drug trade which plagued his country.

Several decades after the death of the Minister of Justice of the government of Belisario Betancur Cuartas, his son does not give up in the face of traffickers.

Tirelessly, Jorge Lara, tells how cocaine still undermines the foundations of Colombia.

The peasants exploited in the laboratories where the drug is produced, he rubbed shoulders with them: “I was in the laboratories.

I planted coca, I even cooked cocaine (…) The peasants who work there are displaced by the armed conflict, they earn a maximum of 8 euros a day”.

The corruption that prevents Colombia from developing, he has seen it: "In Colombia, you have police officers, soldiers who make investments in millions of dollars in the United States (...) We even found laboratories of cocaine on land belonging to the Colombian ambassador to Uruguay", recounts the son of the brutally murdered minister.

Faced with the violence and scale of the traffic, Jorge Lara does not believe in repressive policies that penalize coke addicts: “Drug trafficking cannot be fought with weapons or by putting the consumer in prison (…) you have to adapt and reform.

In Colombia, there are three generations of drug dealers and contract killers”.

Watch his video testimony.