ChapareUNODC counts 65.5% more coca than Bolivia’s law allows.

Surplus leaf feeds cocaine labs, with potential output of 275 metric tons, UNODC estimates.

The Cochabamba Tropics has 7,700 authorised hectares, planted 17,470 in 2025, and sold under 10% of its leaf legally.

“The excess coca leaf produced goes directly to the laboratories,” said Colonel Jorge Santistevan, Santa Cruz’s security secretary.

The US listed Bolivia on 16 September among countries that failed on counternarcotics.

How each outlet framed it
InSight Crime leans critical
cultivation 65.5% over legal limit driven by global cocaine demand; Bolivia is both producer and transit point for Peruvian cocaine

Sources: InSight Crime