United States Government Accountability Office

Plan Colombia: Drug Reduction Goals Were Not Fully Met, but Security Has Improved

Nov 6 -- Plan Colombia's goal of reducing the cultivation, processing and distribution of illegal narcotics by 50 percent in six years was not fully achieved.

6 de noviembre de 2008

From 2000 to 2006, opium poppy cultivation and heroin production declined about 50 percent, while coca cultivation and cocaine production levels increased by about 15 and 4 percent, respectively.
 
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