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UN: Less land in Colombia devoted to growing coca in 2019

by Associated Press
| June 17, 2020 1:06 PM

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The amount of land devoted to growing the plant used to make cocaine dropped in Colombia last year as the military embarked on a campaign to pull out thousands of the coca shrubs that have stood as a stubborn thorn in the nation’s history.

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