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President Trump and his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, appear to have smoothed over their differences.

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At a meeting at the White House, both leaders said their discussions were positive, with a focus on stopping illegal drug trafficking and the lifting of sanctions imposed by the US Last year.

It followed months of mutual insult on social media after the Colombian leader criticized American policies last year.

Colombia is the world's largest producer of cocaine and accounts for around 70% of global supply.

Last month, Donald Trump called Colombia's leader a sick man who likes selling cocaine to the US While President Petro said his government has seized large amounts.

Our senior international correspondent Ola Goren joined Colombia's anti narcotics police, the jungle commandos, on the front line of their war on drugs.

Locked and loaded and heading into the Colombian Amazon on board Black Hawk helicopters.

These jungle commandos are an elite police unit armed by the Americans, originally trained by the sas.

Below us, fertile ground for Colombia's evergreen crop.

Coca leaves now cover an area almost twice the size of Greater London.

And the commandos often face resistance from criminal gangs and guerrillas who control the drug trade.

President Trump says Colombia must try harder.

Still, cocaine production has reached record highs.

We've just landed in part of the cocaine heartland of Colombia.

These police commandos are operating here day after day, carrying out missions.

The aim is to be on the ground for the shortest time possible, no more than 10 or 15 minutes.

A makeshift lab with piles of coca leaves, the raw material for cocaine.

The crop and the chemicals go up in flames.

But we're told there are dozens more labs in this area alone.

The commander has been fighting this war for 16 years and has no illusions.

Today, if you destroy a drug lab, a factory to produce cocaine, how quickly can they build another one?

It's just a matter of changing location or moving by a few meters.

Sometimes when we return to areas where operations have taken place, we find structures have been rebuilt.

Just a few meters away, Colombia's cocaine trail stretches from the Amazon to to the peaks of the Andes.

There are two guerrilla groups in this area, both willing to kill for control of drug turf.

In Catatombo, near the border with Venezuela, bright green coca plants cling to the slopes.

We meet two local farmers who we cannot name.

This man, who we're calling Javier, has five daughters.

He says they are the most beautiful gift God has given him.

But he knows his crop could kill someone else's children.

Do you ever think about the end result of what you are producing?

The truth is, yes, we know sometimes you do think about it.

There are no opportunities for us with this government.

Nearby, his concealed lab, a small corner of a global trade Javier says if Donald Trump wants to stop the flow of cocaine, he should send financial support, not troops.

Orlagiran, BBC News, Catatumbo, Colombia.

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