Yesterday evening I flipped through channels and found that National Geographic was available as part of a week-end free trial. The program that was on was a documentary about Colombian military looking for submarines used by narco traffickers off Colombia's Pacific coast.
One segment was about an informant who claimed there was a submarine being loaded with cocaine in a river near Tumaco. I seem to remember that 5 or 6 years ago a poster here dated a lady whose family lived in or near Tumaco.
I am curious if anyone else has first-hand experience about Tumaco. The stuff the military filmed was amazing. The jungle was pristine and extremely beautiful. Yet people, lots of people, were living there in VERY primitive conditions. They showed how the cocaine cookers lived in the jungle and it was almost pre-historic. All trappings of civilization were kept to a minimum to avoid attracting attention.
Still, the helicopter shots of the jungle and natural life was breath-taking. If there was reliable electricity and paved roads, the area would be fantastic.