1.   Currently, the United States is committed to heavy spending to extend aerial crop eradication.

2.   He said Colombia has also made great progress in terms of crop eradication, drug seizures and the destruction of drug laboratories.

3.   Those steps include crop eradication, extradition of drug lords, implementation of money-laundering bills and stronger efforts to stem the flow of drugs across the border.

4.   Ambassador Myles Frechette made the comments Wednesday in an interview with QAP television, hours after Colombia showed its anger with U.S. policy by temporarily suspending drug crop eradication.

5.   Also, State Department employees and contractors, who fly and maintain planes and helicopters used for drug crop eradication, also are in the South American country.

6.   Bolivia, a major coca producer, has lost favor in Washington because crop eradication has dropped drastically over the past four years, officials said.

7.   Colombia on Friday announced that it will end its suspension of drug crop eradication and resume the spraying next week.

8.   In addition, State Department employees and contractors fly and maintain planes and helicopters used for drug crop eradication.

9.   In Putumayo, government crop substitution programs and attempts to begin crop eradication with herbicide have failed in the face of peasant protests.

10.   They are open to both exploitation by ruthless middlemen and the constant threat of crop eradication.