1. He added that everything from cocaine and heroin consumption in the United States to the controversial policy of aerial fumigation of drug crops in Colombia should be debated. 2. If successful, the program would be repeated across Putumayo and beyond, lessening dependence on the aerial fumigation that will still be used to destroy large coca fields. 3. The increase comes despite the massive aerial fumigation of coca crops, the raw material for cocaine. 4. The plan calls for eliminating drug crops with aerial fumigation and infiltrating drug-processing laboratories. 5. The United States has some experience in the aerial fumigation of coca and poppy fields in Colombia, where most of the heroin sold in the United States originates. 6. Then tens of thousands of acres of coca were eradicated in neighboring Colombia in a vast American-backed campaign of aerial fumigation. 7. They anticipated more support for aerial fumigation of drug crops and even for counterinsurgency operations. 8. Colombian President Andres Pastrana called for a reexamination of global counternarcotics efforts on Thursday, including the much-criticized U.S.-backed aerial fumigation of drug crops. 9. Currently, U.S. aid is largely in support of a controversial aerial fumigation program against coca and poppy plantations. 10. Drug crops guarded and taxed by the FARC and rival paramilitary militias would undergo aerial fumigation. |
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