U.N. Logs ‘Record-High’ Cocaine Production as Colombian Leftists Push Legalization

 

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) documented record-high coca cultivation and cocaine production throughout 2021 in its 2023 World Drug Report, released on Monday.

 

The vast majority – some estimates suggest as much as 80 percent – of the world’s cocaine is produced in Colombia. Following a “peace deal” between the Colombian government and the communist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016 that granted the terrorist organization seats in the Colombian Congress and limited law enforcement operations against coca cultivation, cocaine production has surged. The UNODC noted on Monday that 2021, the year covered in the 2023 report, was the seventh in a row in which cocaine production increased year-on-year. The FARC peace talks began in 2014.

 

International observers fear that cocaine production in Colombia may surge even further since the advent of Gustavo Petro becoming president last year. Petro, a former member of the Marxist M-19 terrorist guerrilla, has openly defended cocaine as a relatively safe drug and deemed it less dangerous to humanity than fossil fuels. Petro is attempting to launch peace talks with the second-largest narco-terror group in Colombia, the National Liberation Army (ELN), and has called for the implementation of a plan dubbed “total peace” that would significantly limit Bogotá’s anti-cocaine operations.

 

The UNODC published its report on Monday in observance of “World Drug Day,” calling for “respect and empathy” towards drug users.

 

Monday is #WorldDrugDay -- an opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of treating people with drug use disorders with respect & empathy.@UNODC has 5 ways you can help combat stigma & discrimination. https://t.co/bi45TaBQzA pic.twitter.com/6q1plzH26w

— United Nations (@UN) June 26, 2023

 

 

 

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