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DRUG WAR: COCA ERADICATION UP, TOTAL PRODUCTION ALSO RISING.
NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs, April, 2005
US-financed eradication of coca crops has reached new levels, even as US reports show that production has increased regionally. Some drug-control officials say they are having record-breaking success with the eradication of coca in the region and reducing total drug availability, but critics are saying that the eradication is driving even more cultivation and causing farmers to destroy environmentally sensitive areas as they fail to significantly reduce supplies of cocaine from the region.
UN official: Cocaine prices will go up
A top UN anti-drug official predicted cocaine prices in the US and Europe will rise next year, reflecting the fruits of a six-year, US-funded effort to eradicate drug production in Colombia.
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