1. But if the plan is successful in reducing coca cultivation in Putumayo, coca will simply move to other areas of Colombia and to other nations. 2. But that reduction has been more than made up by a huge increase in coca cultivation and production in Colombia. 3. Every country bordering Colombia fears that as the conflict there worsens and United States involvement grows, violence and coca cultivation will spill across the frontier into their territory. 4. In Washington, some politicians fear that the price of the DMZ will be an increase in coca cultivation and drug trafficking. 5. It is to get rid of coca cultivation and to take away financing from the armed groups, to weaken the guerrillas. 6. The growth in Colombian coca cultivation came as Peru and Bolivia pressed largely successful campaigns to eradicate cultivation and arrest major traffickers. 7. The rebel group has said it taxes coca cultivation and other aspects of the coca trade but does not traffic in drugs. 8. While coca cultivation plunged in Bolivia and Peru, it increased next door in Colombia, the primary source of cocaine. 9. Police and soldiers two weeks ago began destroying new coca cultivations in two national parks. 10. Coca cultivation has long been widespread in neighboring South American countries too. |
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