COCA, DRUGS AND SOCIAL PROTEST IN BOLIVIA AND PERU
Resumen: In 2000, the Bolivian government announced that its U.S. endorsed strategy of coca crop eradication Plan Dignidad had achieved a notably dramatic reduction of illicit crops to some 14,000 hectares, the level of the early 1980s. Nevertheless, the country has witnessed a renewed and steady increase of coca crops over the following years. Today there are more than 28,500 hectares of coca in Bolivia. Neighbouring Peru reflects a somewhat similar trend. Strong eradication efforts since the mid-1990s produced an all time low in coca crops in 1999 — 37,800 hectares — but that figure rose to 46,200 hectares in 2001, before levelling off at around 45,000 hectares in 2002 and 2003.Taken together, in late 2003 coca was grown on some 73,000 hectares in Bolivia and Peru, approximating the 86,000 hectares in Colombia at the same time.Overall Andean production, however, was about 25 per cent lower than the average of the past 25 years.
Palabras clave: Bolivia, Perú,coca, protest
Autor(es): International Crisis Group
Editorial: International Crisis Group (2005)
