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 veggie
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 Ecuador president cancels Columbia visit over coca
#6395995 - 12/22/06 03:23 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Ecuador's Correa cancels Colombia visit
December 21, 2006 - seattlepi.com
By ELIZABETH M. NUNEZ, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ecuador's President-elect Rafael Correa canceled his visit to Colombia at the last minute Thursday to protest Colombia's refusal to halt U.S.-backed aerial fumigation of coca crops along the nations' shared border.
"With much pain, we have decided to suspend the visit to Bogota," Correa said in Caracas at a joint news conference with leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Correa had been scheduled to fly from Venezuela's capital to Bogota Thursday evening.
Correa, a leftist and ally of Venezuela's anti-U.S. leader, had called for Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to at least temporarily stop fumigation of a chemical called glyphosate during the two days that he had planned to visit.
Correa said Uribe should have shown "some gesture of grace" by suspending the fumigation, but said, "lamentably, we did not get a positive response."
Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Consuelo Araujo, who is married to an Associated Press photographer, said Uribe has offered to travel to Ecuador on Friday to meet with Ecuador's outgoing President Alfredo Palacio and Correa.
She added Correa had accepted the invitation to visit, but that Palacio had considered the trip "inopportune" while the fumigations continued. Colombia rejected Palacio's request that it stop spraying along the border, the foreign minister said.
Correa contends that the fumigation using glyphosate is unacceptable because it kills legal crops on the Ecuadorean side of the border and has been blamed for causing health problems.
His decision threatens to further strain already tense relations with the Colombian government.
Both Correa and Chavez say Colombia should find another way to stamp out cocaine production. The two are united by leftist ideology and critical stances toward the U.S. - a sharp contrast with Uribe, who remains one of Washington's closest allies in South America.
Correa, who takes office Jan. 15, also said he planned to restructure Ecuador's foreign debt.
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 jeverden
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Re: Ecuador president cancels Columbia visit over coca [Re: veggie]
#6397933 - 12/22/06 08:21 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Our government in the US is so ignorant. They think destroying cocaine is good. It will only lead to prices soaring, making it more tempting for people to sell. Addicts will be more likely to rob, steal and do anything else so they can still afford there fix. Hmm let me see what's worse more people doing cocaine or robberies violent crimes and prositution. I think the answer is clear to everyone here!
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