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![Dissident FARC militants continue to operate in the Guaviare district of Colombia. Like many in the region, farmer Luis Vergara of El Retorno, pictured, is still forced to pay taxes to the guerillas each month. "It's a nuisance but you do it," he said. He is reforesting some of his land that borders patches of Amazon forest with Colombian Amazon hardwood trees that grow quickly. The farm was previously a coca plantation. He now raises cattle on the rest of his land, which is now large open fields that were…](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%20510%20315'%2F%3E "Dissident FARC militants continue to operate in the Guaviare district of Colombia. Like many in the region, farmer Luis Vergara of El Retorno, pictured, is still forced to pay taxes to the guerillas each month. "It's a nuisance but you do it," he said. He is reforesting some of his land that borders patches of Amazon forest with Colombian Amazon hardwood trees that grow quickly. The farm was previously a coca plantation. He now raises cattle on the rest of his land, which is now large open fields that were protected forests. Image by Lisa Palmer. Colombia, 2017.")
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![Dissident FARC militants continue to operate in the Guaviare district of Colombia. Like many in the region, farmer Luis Vergara of El Retorno, pictured, is still forced to pay taxes to the guerillas each month. "It's a nuisance but you do it," he said. He is reforesting some of his land that borders patches of Amazon forest with Colombian Amazon hardwood trees that grow quickly. The farm was previously a coca plantation. He now raises cattle on the rest of his land, which is now large open fields that were…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/10-05-17/img_2074.jpg.webp?h=a5eb5da0&itok=HDdxw1f- "Dissident FARC militants continue to operate in the Guaviare district of Colombia. Like many in the region, farmer Luis Vergara of El Retorno, pictured, is still forced to pay taxes to the guerillas each month. "It's a nuisance but you do it," he said. He is reforesting some of his land that borders patches of Amazon forest with Colombian Amazon hardwood trees that grow quickly. The farm was previously a coca plantation. He now raises cattle on the rest of his land, which is now large open fields that were protected forests. Image by Lisa Palmer. Colombia, 2017.")
