The June 2018 U.S. assessment that coca cultivation in Colombia increased again in 2017 has renewed pressures from Washington on Bogotá to intensify coca crop eradication. But the drones that President-elect Iván Duque considers to deploy to do the job provide only a mirage of greater effectiveness. [author-bio] Sprouting Up and Thriving According to the … Continue reading Can Colombia eradicate coca by drones? The illusion of a technological fix