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Weekly Report - 27 August 2015 (WR-15-34)
BOLIVIA: Morales hails further coca progress
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has released its latest survey on coca cultivation in Bolivia which had some positive findings for the government led by President Evo Morales. The report put the total area of coca cultivation at 20,400 hectares (ha) in 2014, a 34% drop since 2010 and the lowest since the UNODC began monitoring coca cultivation in the country in 2003.
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