It may make it easier to fund demobilization and re-integration programs elsewhere in the world.
It's a bizarre working at cross- purposes. You have bad relations with this government, and you're selling them the means to put down opposition protests.
the next time Bolivia blows up I think they'll be used quite a bit.
People with no economic alternatives have not been deterred by fumigation.
Now you have a precedent of the United States actually helping these guys come in from the cold. There's more flexibility.
Coca production was not going to be reduced just because fumigation flights spray some fields as long as these farmers don't have any other economic options, except to cut down forests to grow coca somewhere else.
You're talking about $4.7 billion spent on Plan Colombia, and this is all we have to show for it?
