
In unsettling news for the country's
peace process with the FARC guerillas, Colombia registered a record-shattering 50% increase in coca-leaf cultivation last year, according to the latest report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (
UNODC). The figures,
released by UNODC's Integrated Illicit Crops Monitoring System (
SIMCI) and reported by Bogotá daily
El Tiempo July 14, show 146.000 hectares under coca cultivation in 2016, compared to 96.000 in 2015—actually a 52% jump.
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