Security & Strategic Review -June 2007 (ISSN 1741-4202)
THE WAR ON DRUGS: US and UN disagree on the size of the challenge
If knowing the enemy is crucial to successful warmaking, the 'war on drugs' is in serious trouble. The US government and the UN have come up with such widely differing estimates of coca cultivation that the latter would have to count Bolivia and Peru twice to match the former. For the second year running, the US has been finding plantations in Colombia - the most comprehensively surveyed country in the hemisphere - where it had not even been looking before.
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