For many decades, the coca plant—the main ingredient in cocaine—has been grown almost exclusively in South America. But a new study shows that nearly half of northern Central America appears to be highly suitable for cultivating this lucrative cash crop.
Central America could play troubling new role in cocaine trade: Study finds some countries agriculturally ‘ideal’
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