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Coca spraying failing in Columbia

#5725170 - 06/07/06 11:39 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

What will these bright sparks thing of after they've given up spraying poison over Columbia?

Experts: Drug Spraying Failing in Colombia

By JOSHUA GOODMAN
The Associated Press
Tuesday, May 2, 2006; 6:09 PM

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Aerial spraying of illegal, drug-producing crops in Colombia _ an expensive linchpin of the U.S.-backed war on drugs _ is failing, key members of Congress and drug policy experts said Tuesday.

Despite a record fumigation last year of almost 550 square miles of coca, the latest U.S. government survey found 26 percent more land dedicated to the plant used to make cocaine.

The White House attributed the meteoric rise from 2004 to an 81 percent increase in the satellite sampling area, which skewed an otherwise 8 percent drop in coca production in areas previously surveyed.

But the nuances have largely fallen on deaf ears.

From Congress to the editorial page of Bogota's main newspaper, criticism of the U.S.-backed anti-drug effort known as Plan Colombia _ which has cost American taxpayers $4 billion since 2000 _ is growing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/02/AR2006050201238.html

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