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Cocaine

A European Union perspective in the global context

EMCDDA-Europol joint publications

Lisbon/The Hague, April 2010

 


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dotArticle, El Comercio, 29th April 2010 (Ecuador)

dotArticle, Radio Trece (website), 29th April 2010 (Mexico)

dot Interview of Laurent Laniel by Hernán Restrepo, Radio Nacional de Colombia, 30th April 2010 (Colombia)

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dotArticle, La Nación, 30th April 2010 (Colombia)

dotArticle, El País (Cali), 10th May 2010 (Colombia)


 

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ISBN: 978-92-9168-378-9


Table of contents

Foreword..............................................................................................................................................................................5

Introduction........................................................................................................................................................................8

Coca and cocaine production in the Andean-Amazonian region.......................................................................9

Estimating coca cultivation.....................................................................................................................................10
Estimating cocaine production................................................................................................................................10

Suppressing coca in Colombia....................................................................................................................................14

Drug production and the land issue in Colombia................................................................................................15
Drug production and armed groups in Colombia................................................................................................16

Production of cocaine base and cocaine hydrochloride.......................................................................................17

Cocaine laboratories........................................................................................................................................18

Main trafficking routes to Europe.............................................................................................................................20

Importation to Europe and distribution...................................................................................................................25

Supply reduction initiatives at EU level...................................................................................................................31

Conclusions........................................................................................................................................................................34

References...........................................................................................................................................................................36

Acknowledgements..........................................................................................................................................................41

Other material on coca(ine) available on DrugStrat

dot Trafic de drogues et conflit armé en Colombie: Une relation symbiotique ?, by Ricardo Vargas Meza (full paper) (fr)
dot Drogues et antidrogue en Colombie (presentation of the special issue) (en, fr)
dotSome background information on coca
dot Agricultural drug economies: Cause or anternative to intra-state conflicts (full paper) (en)
dot Production agricole de drogues illicites et conflictualités intra-étatiques : Dimensions économiques et stratégiques (full paper) (fr)
dot Coca, cabeza y corazón (es)
dot Harvesting coca en Yungas de La Paz (pictures)
dotCoca Landscapes, Yungas de La Paz (pictures)
dotThe ADEPCOCA market at Villa Fátima, La Paz (pictures)
dotThe Sacaba coca market, Cochabamba, Chapare, Bolivia (pictures)
dotCoca in La Convención Valley, Cuzco, Peru (pictures)
dotMaking Ypadu in Lima with Anthony Henman (pictures)
dotA kid's eye view of aerial spraying in Colombia, Ecuador (drawings)
dot Hablan los diablos (presentation of the book) (es)

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Narcotráfico: Europa, EEUU, América Latina (presentation of the book) (es)

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