In 2008, Bolivian President Evo Morales kicked out the US Drug
Enforcement Administration. Since then, Bolivia, a traditional coca-growing
region, “has … managed to reduce coca leaf cultivation, especially over the
past five years, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The
total production of dried coca leaf fell 11 percent from 2013 to 2014, and has
fallen by an average of nearly 10 percent each year since 2011.”
Bolivia now has the “lowest coca crop in the region”,
according to a non-profit NGO focusing on coca-growing, while US allies that
still cooperate with the DEA Colombia and Peru have the highest. “Colombia …
according to the United Nations, has seen a significant increase in coca
cultivation over the past year…”
Morales said he “could mention many countries in the world
where there is this drug problem and how it has grown with U.S. presence,”
referring to places like US-occupied Afghanistan, where opium cultivation has
risen dramatically over the past several years.
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