[{"bbox": [158, 153, 1073, 204], "category": "Text", "text": "producer and South America's main marijuana producer. This makes Bolivia an important trafficking corridor."}, {"bbox": [158, 219, 1073, 325], "category": "Text", "text": "In 2013, Bolivia was removed from the “dark grey list” of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which includes countries with deficiencies in combating money laundering and terrorist financing. Eight years later, Bolivia could still join this list as it failed to pass in 2021 the Law Against the Legitimisation of Illicit Gains, which compiles and completes several pending regulatory issues."}, {"bbox": [158, 338, 1073, 520], "category": "Text", "text": "The latest Mutual Evaluation Report of the Plurinational State of Bolivia 2024 puts Bolivia again in the watch list and made 60 fast recommendations to be accomplished by December 2024. If returned to the FATF’s “dark grey list”, Bolivia could suffer an economic and financial blockade because the international community will reduce or suppress relations with the country, damaging the flow of capital and foreign investment. This in turn harms people in their financial transactions, the receipt of remittances from abroad and the impossibility of carrying out transactions with international banks and entities."}, {"bbox": [158, 535, 1073, 775], "category": "Text", "text": "The Justice Sector in Bolivia has been considered as the poor child of the government administration with budget issues, very low independence from the Government of Bolivia, visible corruption and very low performance. This action will contribute to improving the efficiency, security, transparency, interoperability and integration of the justice sector entities, through the use of a single information system in criminal matters, as well as contribute to the establishment of the judicial and prosecutorial career system, which guarantees access to prompt and timely justice, through the strengthening and continuous improvement of the academic processes of selection, training and initial specialisation and continuous training and the institutionalisation of judicial and prosecutorial schools with high standards of academic quality."}, {"bbox": [158, 785, 1073, 866], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action is aligned with the EU Gender Action Plan III 2021-2025⁵ in particular to its thematic area of engagement “Promoting economic and social rights and empowering girls and women”. Likewise, it will contribute to the EU’s Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024."}, {"bbox": [158, 877, 1073, 959], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action is also in line with the EU Strategy on Drugs 2021-2025⁶, which stresses the importance to ensure a high level of health protection, social stability and security, as well as contribute to awareness raising."}, {"bbox": [158, 970, 1073, 1078], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action also alignes with the EU Security Union Strategy 2020-2025⁷, which stresses the importance of addressing the external dimension of security as well as the centrality of cooperation with third countries and at global level to tackle common challenges as part of an effective and comprehensive response, including on money laundering and financing of terrorism."}, {"bbox": [147, 1109, 401, 1140], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.2 Problem Analysis"}, {"bbox": [158, 1155, 1073, 1315], "category": "Text", "text": "Bolivia is one of the three main coca leaf producers in the world after Colombia and Peru. With an area of 29,900 hectares, the country occupies third place in production with 8.5% of total world production according to figures reported in 2023. Even despite advances in crop control, Bolivia faces significant challenges to reduce the area destined for coca cultivation in the country, until reaching the legal limit of 22,000 hectares, aimed at satisfying the demand for legal consumption at the national level. By 2022, the surplus area is 7,900 Ha."}, {"bbox": [158, 1327, 1073, 1407], "category": "Text", "text": "Although the Government has made extreme eradication efforts in several sectors of the country affected by Coca, greater operational capacity, as well as the need to strengthen and invest in evidence-based decisions and institutional accountability."}, {"bbox": [158, 1419, 1073, 1499], "category": "Text", "text": "Regarding drug trafficking, Bolivia is a cocaine transit and production country. Statistics issued and published by the anti-narcotics police (Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking – FELCN), suggest that Bolivia, in addition to being a drug transit country, is also a country of origin for drugs. This"}, {"bbox": [147, 1540, 731, 1565], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁵ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_2184"}, {"bbox": [147, 1565, 805, 1590], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁶ https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:2021:102I:TOC"}, {"bbox": [147, 1589, 840, 1614], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁷ eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX%3A52020DC0605"}, {"bbox": [966, 1655, 1082, 1682], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 6 of 36"}]