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 LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - U.S. officials say they can't detect an increase in Bolivia's coca crop under the country's coca-promoting President Evo Morales — but say they doubt their own figures.
A study released Wednesday by the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy found Bolivia's coca production "statistically unchanged" from 2005, the year before the leftist president, who rose to prominence as a coca growers' representative, was inaugurated.
But U.S. officials say they still expect Bolivian cultivation of the plants used to make cocaine to rise under Morales' "zero cocaine, not zero coca" policy, continuing an upward trend that began early in the decade.
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