CNEB guerrilla fighters stand guard in a coca field beside munitions they surrendered for army disposal in Nariño province, southwest Colombia.

CNEB guerrilla fighters stand guard in a coca field beside munitions they surrendered for army disposal in Nariño province, southwest Colombia.

Photographer: Matthew Bristow/Bloomberg 

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More than a dozen enforcers from a cocaine-funded militia emerged from boats on a small river in the Colombian Amazon last month, and headed for a jungle clearing.