Ecuador – Colombia Ministers meet along border inspect increase in coca growth

Posted on September 29, 2013 • Filed under: Agriculture, Border Issues, Colombia, Crime, Ecuador

ecuavisa.com reported that the ministers of Colombia, Juan Carlos Pinzon, and Ecuador, Homer Arellano , with defense officials, security and military, yesterday visited the border area to contain growing coca (the raw material for cocaine) and determine the action to follow. The heads walked a stretch of 10 kilometers from the Colombian side, where aerial spraying was suspended on the grounds that such activities affect licit crops and the health of Ecuadorian communities.
“Today we saw how it destroyed a laboratory (there is processed coca leaves) and those experiences we will bring our authorities” to continue with concrete actions to curb the drug trade, the minister said Arellano.
Cultivation. In the past five years, the cultivation of the coca leaf had an increase of 4,000 hectares, of 2000-6000, according to Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, who acknowledged that the bad relationship old Colombian-Ecuadorian precluded a inspection. Read Article
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