The increase in the area cultivated with coca in Colombia has cast doubt on the country's anti-drug strategy and has …. (ii) Seizures and destruction of infrastructure may help in reducing coca plantations. (iii) There is no evidence to … support the hypothesis that the consumption of cocaine in Colombia has increased. (iv) Most regions of the country have seen a …

This paper studies the effect of interdiction on coca cultivation in Colombia. Though directed against intermediate and … final stages of cocaine production, this strategy could also have an impact on coca cultivation by affecting monopsonistic … activities of ilegal groups. My results suggest that different types of interdiction operations have a negative effect on coca …

Colombia together with data from close to 1,200 rainfall stations, I show that transitory weather shocks lead to lower rates of …