In this week’s Trend Lines interview, WPR’s Elliot Waldman talks with Isabel Pereira and Kathryn Ledebur about the different approaches to coca cultivation in Colombia and Bolivia, and what role the U.S. should play to support a more constructive and sustainable response to drug trafficking in the region.

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