>>111327085>>111327085Despite Colombia having the dubious distinction of being the world leading producer of coca for many years[2] those plans, slowly but surely, diminished the drug produced, to the extent that in 2010 the country reduced cocaine production by 60%, relative to the peak in 2000. In that same year, Peru surpassed Colombia as the main producer of coca leaves in the world.[3] The level of drug related violence was halved in the last 10 years, when the country moved from being the most violent country in the world to have a homicide rate that is inferior to the one registered in countries like Honduras, Jamaica, El Salvador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago and South Africa.[4]
Colombia has acted in a more aggressive way than most of the countries signatories of the 1988 Vienna Convention against drug trafficking, by including chemicals and drug precursors, that are freely traded in the rest of the world, in the list of nationally controlled substances.[5] Notwithstanding the internal production of drugs, the rate of internal consumption in Colombia is smaller than the one presented in the United States and in many of the countries of the European Union and the absolute drug consumption is even smaller.[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade_in_Colombia#Influence_of_Cali_CartelThey did do something about it though