http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303410404577464780726160246.html
The fastest expansion of coca growing lands...is underway in the hot and humid Amazon.
Traditionally a mountainous crop...narcos have found a new strain of coca that thrives in the jungle's acidic soils.
The Amazon region now comprises 8% of Peru's coca hectares.
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