LIMA, Peru — Peru is on the brink of officially confirming its unwanted status as the world’s top producer of cocaine and other illegal coca plant derivatives.
In recent weeks, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has released the 2012 production statistics for coca, the Andean bush from which the drugs are made, for Colombia and Bolivia.
Both show sharp drops, which Peru is not expected to match when its figures are eventually published.
According to UNODC, Colombia’s total area dedicated to coca cultivation in 2012 was 48,000 hectares (119,000 acres), 25 percent less than the 2011 number of 64,000 hectares.
Meanwhile, Bolivia’s equivalent figure fell by 7 percent to 25,000 hectares, the agency has confirmed.
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Peru dethrones Colombia as cocaine king
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