Our final stop was to a cut flower farm near Medellin. It is a sprawling facility with greenhouses covering several acres. Again, the message was that the Colombian and U.S. governments were working together with industry to provide new opportunity to Colombians displaced by violence. The cut flower industry is growing in this part of Colombia, and the facility we visited stressed its importance because it is a labor-intensive business, providing good jobs to those forced to move out of the countryside.
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