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The coronavirus has gutted the price of coca. It could reshape the cocaine trade.

2020-06-09 00:00:00, Anthony Faiola, Washington Post

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1382

Words/Sentence:
24

Reading Time:
13.82 min

Reading Quality:
Advanced

Readability:
16th or higher

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But the coronavirus pandemic has accomplished what neither other international crises nor a U.S.-backed "war" ever could: a collapse in the price of coca leaf, a natural stimulant that is the building block of cocaine.

Marcela López, a coca farmer and local leader in the Chapare, Bolivia's main coca-growing region, blamed the nation's tough-talking, anti-coca interior minister, Arturo Murillo."

The great coca crash of 2020 – prices for the leaf in some regions of South America have fallen as much as 73 percent – illustrates the extent to which the pandemic is disrupting every aspect of global trade, including the traffic in illegal drugs.

The South American cocaine trade is one example of how the global underworld of narcotics and illicit drugs is confronting its own coronavirus crisis.

Even in the midst of a dramatic national recession sparked by the coronavirus, the Peruvian government has funneled cash to coca-growing regions to promote everything from avocado growing to fish farming.

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