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Table of contents
Foreword..............................................................................................................................................................................5Introduction........................................................................................................................................................................8
Coca and cocaine production in the Andean-Amazonian region.......................................................................9
Estimating coca cultivation.....................................................................................................................................10
Estimating cocaine production................................................................................................................................10Suppressing coca in Colombia....................................................................................................................................14
Drug production and the land issue in Colombia................................................................................................15
Drug production and armed groups in Colombia................................................................................................16Production 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
Trafic de drogues et conflit armé en Colombie: Une relation symbiotique ?, by Ricardo Vargas Meza (full paper) (fr)
Drogues et antidrogue en Colombie (presentation of the special issue) (en, fr)
Some background information on coca
Agricultural drug economies: Cause or anternative to intra-state conflicts (full paper) (en)
Production agricole de drogues illicites et conflictualités intra-étatiques : Dimensions économiques et stratégiques (full paper) (fr)
Coca, cabeza y corazón (es)
Harvesting coca en Yungas de La Paz (pictures)
Coca Landscapes, Yungas de La Paz (pictures)
The ADEPCOCA market at Villa Fátima, La Paz (pictures)
The Sacaba coca market, Cochabamba, Chapare, Bolivia (pictures)
Coca in La Convención Valley, Cuzco, Peru (pictures)
Making Ypadu in Lima with Anthony Henman (pictures)
A kid's eye view of aerial spraying in Colombia, Ecuador (drawings)
Hablan los diablos (presentation of the book) (es)
Narcotráfico: Europa, EEUU, América Latina (presentation of the book) (es)