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Knappe Mehrheit im Parlament bestätigt Kabinett der Regierung von Präsident Castillo. Rechtsparteien wollen als "Wand des Widerstands" Reformbemühungen blockieren

A slump in world coffee prices has pushed farmers in Peru’s central jungle to rip up their plants and replace them with coca leaf – the raw material used in cocaine. This countrywide trend has driven coca leaf production close to 55,000 hectares or up to 500 tons of cocaine annually – enough to satisfy annual demand in the United States three times over. As drug trafficking routes shrank due to COVID-19 lockdowns, the price of coca leaf plummeted to half its previous levels. Although it has slowly recovered, it finished 2020 by 23% lower than a year earlier. But even so, coca offers poo...

Colombia, according to estimates by the White House, has 212,000 hectares of coca leaf and produces 951 tons of cocaine per year. This makes it the main (by far) exporter of this narcotic in the world (90% of the market, approximately). Despite the very costly Coca eradication programs and the bloody war on drugs, declared since the Richard Nixon administration, production reaches record levels and no close solution is in sight. This semester, the senator for the Green Party, proposed a bill that seeks to give another approach to this fight against drugs to regulate the cultivation of the C...

Production of coca leaf in colombia and fight more effectively the other links in drug trafficking including consumption. we must continue and deepen the fight against organized crime, transnational crime. responsible not just for drug trafficking but also for human trafficking and illegal mining. our shared agenda framed within a high-level dialogue that we colombians value so much includes cooperation which has allowed us to have unprecedented progress toward quality education for everyone, and this is a priority in the policies of my government and we wish to do more with regards to innovat...

Headache. and there is the tea made of coca leaf. cola leaf is the main ingredient of cocaine but chewing and drinking tea are considered safe and legal here. the vatican tried to limit the effects of altitude by limiting pope francis' trip to four hours. the followers lined the ways. he showed no signs of fatigue. but we may never know if coca leaf helped him keep up his spirits. >> what a response he's getting. >> the crowds are immense. in paraguay they will be even bigger. >> i'm rosemary church. "early start" is coming up in the united states. >> and i'm max foster, elsewhere join me for ...