Security & Strategic Review - February 2023

Bolivia’s Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo presented the latest figures on coca leaf cultivation and eradication on 20 December, announcing that, according to field data collected by the interior ministry, the government had exceeded its target for coca eradication for the second year running – achieving a net eradication of 10,260 hectares (ha) of coca leaf in 2022. This figure is 2.5% higher than that achieved in 2021.