After the balance of Human Rights and National Defense Observatory in which it was stated that in the first month of 2023, no coca plants have been eradicated, a basic input for the production of cocaine, as reported in the regional newspaper The Country of Calithe director of the national police, General Henry Sanabria, pointed out the reason why this process was not carried out.

“She is recovering, she was hit by the explosion of a grenade,” said Mayor Luis Carlos Anaya.

“That month, like every year, he devoted himself to the administrative issue for the hiring of the eradicators and to all the administrative part necessary for the exercise”, argued the senior official consulted by GLM.

He assured that they had eradicated 420 hectares in the month of February and added that the government, in compliance with the defense and security policy which It is advancing in its consolidation, and its objective is that by this year the eradication reaches 22,000 hectares of illicit crops, but above all with “an institutional permanence so that there is no reseeding”.

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The latest report from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime -October 2022- revealed that in Colombia there are, at least, 204,000 hectares planted with coca.

The document stated thatCoca crops in Colombia continue to be located in “the same territories with conditions of vulnerability” and that 62% of the total is concentrated in three departments: Nariño (on the border with Ecuador), Norte de Santander (on the border with Venezuela) and Putumayo (on the border with Peru and Ecuador).

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Last December, the Colombian President, Gustave Petro, told a meeting of Cocalera organizations, held in El Tarra, which is part of the Catatumbo region, that In his government, the policy of forced eradication will be changed in which he will seek to “capture the owners of this product and not those who harvest the coca leaf”.

On the other hand, General Sanabria explained that in the first two months of this year, 35.3 tons of cocaine were seized.

Similarly, during this same period, the authorities They seized 8.9 tons of cocaine base, 35.5 tons of marijuana and 515 structures were destroyed where drug dealers processed cocoa.

In the local newspaper The Colombian They explained that, according to the Defense Department’s security record, It was the first of January in decades in which not a single coca plant had been uprooted, and that in the same period, under the presidency of Iván Duque, 2,419 hectares had been eradicated.

From the Defense portfolio, they explained to the Antioquia newspaper that the national police trained the personnel during the first month of the year, as well as the acquisition of the equipment to carry out these tasks, which resumed in February.

They also stated in The Colombian What For President Petro’s government, the interdiction of cocaine shipments is crucial. Indeed, in January, they had succeeded in destroying 607 laboratories and seizing 40 tons of drugsHowever, this also meant a 19% reduction from 2022 where, in the same month, they managed to seize 58.7 tonnes.

The results of the eradication of coca were known on the very day when the government of President Petro announced that he will accompany Bolivia in the petition before the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs to remove this plant from its list of prohibited substances. This request would not include cocaine, a substance that is synthesized from the leaves of this plant considered sacred by the indigenous communities of these two South American countries.

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