Juan Manuel Barrero Bueno
Frontline Freelance Register
Bogotá, Colombia
He graduated in Film and Photography technologist UNITEC, Bogotá. He has worked in the following areas: video, product photography, fashion photography, travel photography, cinematography of 16 and 35 mm, photojournalism throughout Colombia with Press Agency, COLPRENSA. In 2007, he decided to move to Choco, the region most neglected and least accessible of Colombia, where social conflict problems occur daily to develop photo essays about the people of the region. It has developed projects for OXFAM, GTZ, DIAKONIA, USAID, ACDIVOCA and has worked with the United Nations (UN) and its various offices, programs and organizations in Chocó and Nariño. He has also collaborated with international news agencies (Reuters, AFP, AP, Reuters) in Colombia. Currently, lives in Bogota, working with EFE, the Miami Herald, Getty Images, Publik, IPS, while continuing forward personal projects.
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The War on Drugs in Colombia 10
Juan Manuel Barrero Bueno
19/10/2017. El Tandil, Llorente, Nariño. Coca paste base in its intermediate stage. In these areas, coca is the only resource the peasants have to survive, so the base is considered a currency.
From this base, other chemical processes are carried out to convert it into cocaine hydrochloride.
The War on Drugs in Colombia 9
Juan Manuel Barrero Bueno
14/01/2016. Rural Area "La Paz" Guaviare, Colombia. To the "purification" of coca leaf with gasoline, caustic soda, bicarbonate and other chemical components, sulfuric acid is added, which results in the "coca base".
The War on Drugs in Colombia 8
Juan Manuel Barrero Bueno
18/10/2017. El Tandil, Llorente, Nariño. A man revolves with his hand, the mixture made with gasoline and coca leaf, as part of the process of making coca base paste, which is a currency in these remote areas of Colombia.