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Cocaine: Viva La Coca
Angus McQueen, UK, documentary, 49 min., 2004
(Spanish with subtitles)
Canadian Premiere
 In the Peruvian Andes, Indigenous inhabitants perform the backbreaking work of farming and harvesting coca leaves. Though there is very little monetary gain, the coca leaf has always been a part of their way of life. Yet the real suffering endured by the community is the terror inflicted on them by rebel and government forces alike. Rape, torture, executions, toxic spraying, and helicopter raids from US Special Forces are just some of the tribulations the farmers must survive. This doc unflinchingly shines a direct light on the War on Drugs as ultimately a war on farmers and their families. – R.S.
Angus McQueen has worked in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since the 1980s, making a number of prestigious documentary series of British TV including The Last Peasants, Vodka, and Gulag.
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