Biden administration suspends satellite monitoring of Colombian coca crops amid surge in cocaine
JOSHUA GOODMAN
Associated Press
In the 1990s, the drug war ranged from the jungles of Colombia to the streets of American cities. The Biden administration has quietly ditched a key gauge used for decades to measure success in the war on drugs, suspending satellite monitoring of coca crops in Colombia amid a surge of cocain…
MIAMI — The Biden administration has quietly ditched a key gauge used for decades to measure success in the war on drugs, suspending satellite monitoring of coca crops in Colombia amid a surge of cocaine production in South America.
Police patrol a coca field as hired farmers uproot coca shrubs during an eradication campaign of illegal crops Aug. 15, 2012, in San Miguel on Colombia's southern border with Ecuador. The U.S. State Department confirmed Thursday that the Biden administration has suspended satellite monitoring of coca crops in Colombia.
A police officer walks in front of forensic markers after a shooting in January in the Merksem district of Antwerp, Belgium.
Virginia Mayo, Associated Press
Europe Cocaine
A container is loaded onto a ship on Aug. 17, 2022, in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. Cocaine is spreading at an alarming rate through Europe, much of it through the world ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Virginia Mayo, Associated Press
Europe Cocaine
Kris Verborgh, chief police inspector of the Brussels Morolles neighborhood, shows a package of crack cocaine in January in Brussels.
Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Associated Press
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Police patrol a coca field as hired farmers uproot coca shrubs during an eradication campaign of illegal crops Aug. 15, 2012, in San Miguel on Colombia's southern border with Ecuador. The U.S. State Department confirmed Thursday that the Biden administration has suspended satellite monitoring of coca crops in Colombia.
