U.S. Says Drug Trade Is Booming as Morales’s Plan to Encourage Legal Products From Leaves Backfires
“Now Bolivia’s coca production is up, according to the United Nations — but so is its cocaine trade. Cocaine production is potentially up as much as 65%, U.S. law-enforcement officials say, as Colombian and Mexican traffickers have set up shop in the country. Bolivia’s neighbors complain they are being hammered by the cocaine flooding across its borders.”