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(Bloomberg) — Colombia has suspended the forced eradication of coca, the crude oil to make cocaine, the country’s most sensible police officer said Tuesday.
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Instead of taking action against the small farmers who grow the plants, the police will focus on attacking the “big mafias” that are further down the illegal drug production chain, Henry Sanabria, director of the national police, said in an interview with El Tiempo. a newspaper.
Sanabria said police had made a decision to suspend eradication pending the new government’s recommendation, which it took this month.
Authorities are continuing “voluntary eradication,” Sanabria said, in which farmers are encouraged to dig up their own coca in exchange for developing legal crops.
President Gustavo Petro said in his inaugural speech that the war had failed and called for a new approach. The country produces more cocaine than Peru and Bolivia combined.
Colombia stopped aerial coca spraying in 2015 for fear that the herbicides used were carcinogenic. Instead, the government relied on sending personnel to dig up the crops by hand, through police and anti-explosive dogs.
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