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Colombia's renewed war on drugs could get ugly, and solve nothing
by Adriaan Alsema August 13, 2018
The war on drugs could get ugly in Colombia after the country’s new government said it would ignore crop substitution agreements made with 75,000 coca-growing families and send in the military.
Two days after taking office, Defense Minister Guillermo Botero said that the government would withdraw from the agreements made between the previous administration, the United Nations and the farmers in May last year.
Botero bluntly said that “voluntary substitution is over” and that he would return to forcible eradication and aerial fumigation, breaking yet another state promise made in a peace agreement with the FARC.
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“I believe the government has rushed for political reasons to ingratiate itself with the United States rather than for real efficiency” in reducing cocaine production, Camilo Gonzalez, director of think tank Indepaz, told television network NTN24.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-renewed-war-on-drugs-could-get-ugly-and-solve-nothing/
