He writes: “I am South American, Colombian to be more precise. One of the few who have made New Zealand home. And I have my personal story even though I am not a refugee, like many here I am running away from the drug cartels, paramilitary or guerrillas.

I have personal reasons for dislike the glamorising of cocaine in this way. I lost a 42 year-old brother, father of 2, because he stepped into somebody’s toes, while doing his job, Dec 5th 2003 in my hometown, 4 bullets to his head; a week later the hitman (only 19 years-old) was found killed, sad because he was father too.”

He also makes the following points:

There are also environmental effects. Native bush is replaced illegally by a monoculture of coca plants endangering biodiversity. And the chemicals used in the processing of coca leaves to produce cocaine
make their way into water ways.

Native South Americans (ethnic minorities) are constantly under pressure from illegal groups who profit from the cocaine industry. Many kids, as young as 11 years-old, end up entangled in the “hitman industry”.

It’s not just about the locals, a highly recurrent police incident in the main tourist destinations of South America is tourists, mostly Europeans, being pronounced dead in hotel rooms, cause of death OD.

Colombian Law says you are committing a crime by encouraging people to buy drugs. In Columbia, the author of an ad like BurgerFuel’s could be prosecuted under that law and imprisoned.

been done in the States before.

One of my happy campers reckons he got gastroenteritis from BF Wellington. This guy does have a plastic tube in his brain, so who knows.