This is a historic high, according to a statement from the Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Thursday.
According to the UN agency, the potential for cocaine production in Colombia has soared to a peak of 1,400 tons. The potential is made up of several values, such as the amount of coca leaves that can be harvested per hectare and the amount of alkaloids.
Colombia is one of the world’s largest producers of cocaine, which is made from the coca plant, ahead of Peru and Bolivia. Neither the peace agreement with the guerrilla organization FARC, which financed itself with drug trafficking, among other things, nor the Corona crisis could put a stop to large-scale coca cultivation in the South American country.
Much of the cocaine is smuggled into the United States. There have also been record confiscations in Europe recently.
(SDA)
Source: Blick
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