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Montevideo, December 22nd 2024 - 14:21 UTC

Tag: Drug production

  • Friday, January 10th 2020 - 14:25 UTC

    Colombia eradicated 100.000 hectares of coca in 2019, president Duque reports

    The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has praised Duque's stepped-up eradication efforts. Bogotá set out to eradicate 80,000 hectares last year.

    Colombia, a top source of coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, eradicated more than 100,000 hectares of the crop last year, President Ivan Duque said on Thursday. The Andean country has come under repeated pressure from the United States, an important destination for cocaine shipments, to reduce coca cultivation, especially as crop figures shot up in recent years.