Colombia: Coca's Comeback Forces Colombia to Rethink Drug War

Jul 18, 2016 | Joshua Goodman, Associated Press
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After six straight years of declining or steady production, the amount of land under coca cultivation in Colombia began rising in 2014 and jumped 42 percent last year to 159,000 hectares (393,000 acres), according to the U.S. government. That's an area twice the size of New York City, and after much production shifted to Peru over the past decade, the United Nations said recently that Colombia is once again the world's largest supplier of the drug.