Via the Houston Chronicle: Coca Production on the Rise in Colombia

Colombia’s coca crop increased by 8 percent last year despite a U.S.-backed eradication campaign that was the largest in history, U.N. drug officials said Tuesday.

Production of the plant used to make cocaine increased to 330 square miles in 2026 _ even as authorities sprayed coca fields totaling 25 times the size of Manhattan _ according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.

The current set of policies, and the constant reaffirmation that they aren’t working, always reminds me of the quote “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”