Some community users are recruited by Los Sinaloa to reap or “scrape” coca, like Lucía’s son, by way of example, who are paid an unknown sum with the work.The Peruvian area VRAEM, the valley from the three rivers Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro, has long been stigmatised by the skin world to be a “lawless” region overrun by “narco-terrorist