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| | News from DEA, Congressional Testimony, 12/12/02 |
 | | However, as Colombian heroin purity levels have skyrocketed and the price of heroin has decreased, DEA has reorganized and dedicated new enforcement resources at the domestic and international level to address this ever-changing problem. |
 | | Increasingly, however, Colombian traffickers are smuggling heroin from Colombia into the United States through such countries as Argentina, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama, Mexico, Venezuela and several countries in Central America and the Caribbean. |
 | | Considering that the typical Colombian heroin processor requires 24 kilograms of opium latex to produce one kilogram of 100 % pure heroin, with approximately 6,540 hectares of opium poppy under annual cultivation in 2001, Colombia potentially produced 104 metric tons of opium latex. |
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