Cocaine in Colombia is at an all-time high.

More cocaine was produced there in 2016 than ever before, despite billions of dollars from the United States to help curb the trade, new figures from the United Nations showed Friday.

In 2016, coca cultivation in the South American country surged 52 percent, spanning 146,000 hectares, compared with 96,000 in 2015. The 2016 crops produced an estimated 866 metric tons of cocaine, an increase of 35 percent compared to 2015.

The results are “disappointing,” the UN said in its press release detailing the latest figures, which makes sense, considering that the United States spent over $10 billion trying to help counter narcotic efforts in Colombia over the last 17 years.

The hope was to bolster Colombian security forces in combating illicit drug cartels.

Colombia’s chief prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martinez declared in March that, “We cannot allow drug trafficking to coexist with peace and reconciliation,” according to the Associated Press.

He got the reconciliation — a peace deal between the FARC guerilla insurgency was reached just last month — but farmers have carried on producing cocaine, seemingly undeterred.

The boom in production in Colombia has also directly influenced cocaine use worldwide, including in the United States and Europe, according to the 2017 World Drug Report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

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