Cocaine production in South America is surging, with a United Nations report estimating a 53% increase in output from 2022 to 2023, reaching 2,664 metric tons. In fact, farmers in Colombia, have become so efficient at growing it that they have doubled their yield per acre, as a new piece from Border Report reveals.
This rise is being seen at the U.S.-Mexico border, where drug seizures are increasing even as fentanyl-related incidents begin to decline.
