The incessant consumption of cocaine in the United States and Europe continues to drive the processing of coca base paste in Colombia, which meant that in 2023, an amount of gasoline so large that it could fill and overflow Colombia’s largest lagoon, Lake Tota, with the 1.7 million cubic meters of gasoline used, was poured into the departments with the most coca in the country: Norte de Santander, Nariño, and Putumayo.
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