Bolivia strikes against cocaine producers
LA PAZ: Bolivian authorities said they struck a significant blow against cocaine producers in the country after the discovery and destruction of three “mega-factories” that they stated could produce up to 910 kg of crack a day.
Police found the tarpaulincovered, makeshift factories hidden in forestry reserves and national parks in eastern Beni province, central Cochabamba and southcentral Santa Cruz, law enforcement ministries said.
Longtime former Bolivian President Evo Morales himself a former coca farmer, increased quotas for legal cultivation of the crop. Those have been maintained by current President Luis Arce, but anything cultivated in excess of the agreed amounts is destroyed.