FARC Defector Leads Expansion of Drug Trafficking in the Amazon

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Issue Sep 17-23 2025: Peru’s Department of Amazonas was the setting for the country’s highest increase in cocaine production (45%) between 2023 and 2024, according to data from the National Commission for Development and Life Without Drugs (Devida). Between 2020 and 2024, coca cultivation along the Ecuadorian border almost tripled, climbing from 656 hectares to 1,018 hectares.

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