Coca-leaf production in Colombia soared last year to historic levels, flooding the world with record amounts of the drug at a time when President Gustavo Petro declared that decades of US-led eradication efforts have failed.
Last year, the area planted with coca, the raw material for cocaine manufacture, increased 43% to 204,000 hectares, according to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report released Thursday.
Because newly planted coca bushes take years to . . .
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