The International Narcotics Control Strategy Report examined progress in counter-narcotics efforts worldwide last year. The annual report is used to determine which countries belong on the US list of major drug-producing and -trafficking nations and are subject to sanctions for failing to meet counter-narcotics requirements.

In Latin America, the report said, cocaine seizures hit record highs last year. It praised Colombia, the world's top coca-cultivating nation and source of about 90 percent of cocaine in the United States, for both its seizures and its eradication efforts.

Peru ranks second and Bolivia third among coca producers in the world. According to the report, coca cultivation in Bolivia rose by 8 percent last year to 65,000 acres, a trend the State Department found disquieting “as it shows no signs of being reversible in the short run”.

Although the report found a rise in coca cultivation in Peru, it said the government is meeting its eradication goals.

The report gave a mixed picture in Afghanistan, saying the opium yield in the country rose because of favorable weather despite a 48 percent drop in land used for poppy cultivation overall. It warned that the country's opium crop and heroin production threaten national development.

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