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Security & Strategic Review - July 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
COLOMBIA: Confirmed: more coca, potentially more cocaine
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has confirmed what the White House had claimed in May: that after a period of decline as a result of intense eradication efforts, coca cultivation in Colombia increased last year, and did so substantially. The areas where most of the increases were recorded coincide roughly with those the UNODC report describes as subject to ‘vulnerabilities’ ― that is, those where the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas (and other armed groups) are most active. No single factor is identified as having most influenced the upturn. Cocaine prices suggest that extra ‘pull’ from the consumer markets abroad was not involved; rather, the report points tentatively to a series of domestic factors.
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