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Weekly Report - 30 June 2011 (WR-11-26)

COLOMBIA : Drug figures fail to tell full story

The most interesting news to come out of Colombia this week was not the headline-grabbing figures that coca cultivation fell by 15% in 2010. For one thing, the media tends to ignore the caveats supplied in the annual report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) stressing that this figure is very much an estimate. More significant by far were two concrete developments involving Colombia which just happened to coincide with the report's release. Firstly, Colombia's constitutional court ruled that, henceforth, authorities must consult indigenous people before eradicating coca on their native lands. Secondly, the defence ministries of Colombia and Brazil agreed to negotiate a binational border security plan to combat narco-trafficking and organised crime.

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