11.   Hundreds of poor peasants traveled for days to the alternative development conference to speak out against aerial fumigation.

12.   Illegal plantings have increased despite the aerial fumigation, which environmentalists say threatens humans, plants and animals in and around the Amazon River basin.

13.   Indians in southwestern Cauca state also blocked the Pan-American Highway to protest the U.S.-backed aerial fumigation of drug crops they say damages the environment and legitimate crops.

14.   The strategy for aggressive aerial fumigation of coca plots in Putumayo is expected to include alternative crop programs.

15.   U.S.-backed efforts to crush heroin production in Colombia with aerial fumigation of poppy plants and seizures of drug shipments have had little effect.

16.   While the government insists on continuing the aerial fumigation, environmentalists are warning of ecological damage.

17.   Whether aerial fumigation will even work is dubious.

18.   With no economic alternative, many of the coca farmers in southern Colombia who have been hit by aerial fumigation earlier this year are already replanting the drug crops.