Bush and Uribe distort the realities of their ...
18-August-2005, Colombia, VHeadline.com
Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) Research Associate Paul Adams: On Thursday, August 4, US president Bush hosted Colombian President Alvaro Uribe at his ranch in Crawford, Texas to discuss their joint war on drugs. The focal points of their ...
Bush vows to sustain aid for Colombia drug war
04-August-2005, Colombia, Reuters AlerNet
U.S. President George W. Bush pledged on Thursday to sustain funding for Colombia's fight against drugs and violence even as a senior State Department official said Washington would like to reduce its anti-narcotics aid.
As a close partner in the ...
Drug war in Colombia: Is there any progress?
21-June-2005, Colombia, Houston Chronicle
As proof that the U.S.-backed drug war in South America is paying off, the Bush administration says cocaine production has plummeted by nearly 30 percent over the past three years.
But some American counternarcotics officials and drug-trade ...
UN drugs chief raises alarm on Bolivia crisis
14-June-2005, Bolivia, Reuters AlerNet
By Mark John
BRUSSELS, June 14 (Reuters) - Bolivia needs urgent international help to stop farmers turning to coca production as a political crisis distracts efforts to combat drugs, the head of the U.N. drugs office on Tuesday.
The ...
America's drugs plan in tatters as cocaine and ...
15-May-2005, United States, The Independent
Washington's "war on drugs" in Colombia is collapsing in chaos and corruption, and the drug producers are winning. The so-called Plan Colombia, which has cost the US more than $3bn (£1.6bn) in the past five years, is being abandoned, Secretary of ...
A New Plan for Colombia
02-May-2005, Colombia, znet
Albert Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." If he were alive today, he would consider US policy toward Colombia insane.
Last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited ...
Anti-Drug Gains in Colombia Don't Reduce Flow to ...
28-April-2005, United States, The New York Times
By JOEL BRINKLEY
Published: April 28, 2005
OGOTĮ, Colombia, April 27 - Five years and $3 billion into the most aggressive counternarcotics operation ever here, American and Colombian officials say they have eradicated a record-breaking ...
Report: Colombia drug war failing
01-April-2005, Colombia, CNN
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A new White House report showed that a massive aerial spraying offensive last year failed to dent the area of coca under cultivation in Colombia.
But President Alvaro Uribe vowed on Friday to press ahead with ...
Rainforest new front in Colombian drug war
11-March-2005, Colombia, seattlepi.com
A helicopter machine gunner looks over the Garrapatas Canyon, in Colombia's western Choco state, Thursday, March 10, 2005. In the newest front in Colombia's drug war, cocaine producers are penetrating one of the largest tracts of virgin rainforest ...
US seeks Colombian help on drugs
23-February-2005, United States, Financial Times
US counter-narcotics authorities are examining controversial policies used in Colombia, the world's top cocaine producer, to formulate efforts to combat the flow of drugs from Afghanistan, the world's leading supplier of heroin.
John Walters, ...
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