Steven Grattan

Colombia is the world’s biggest producer of cocaine, the illegal drug derived from coca [Steven Grattan/Al Jazeera]

Henri* lies in a hammock on his front porch with a pistol on the table beside him.

The 36-year-old coca farmer says he was forced to resume the risky business of growing the plant from which cocaine is made.

Ricardo Semillas holds up a photo of himself when he served as a FARC commander [Steven Grattan/Al Jazeera]

Nearly 300 ex FARC fighters have been killed since 2016, according to a report by the United Nations in October; this year alone 41 have been murdered. Luis Guitérrez, a 47-year-old ex-combatant who sells snacks and cigarettes in the shop in Los Monos. He lost his left hand and the use of his right eye while planting a landmine in 2008.

Juancho Zuñiga sits beside his five-year-old daughter on a bed in a reintegration camp in Colombia’s western Cauca region. The flag of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (farc) hangs above them. The girl is the same age as the peace deal her father signed up to, which ended more than 50 years of conflict between the farc and the Colombian government. 

Along with 13,000 other guerrillas who had waged war from Colombia’s mountains and jungles, Mr Zuñiga, now 31, demobilised in 2016. He moved into a reintegration camp called Los Monos, one of 24 set up after the peace agreement.  For the first time since he was 12 he is a civilian. “It’s a completely new life,” he says. Now a private security guard, he has “worked harder in these five years than I did in all the years I was a guerrilla”.