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?

People with no economic alternatives have not been deterred by fumigation.

It may make it easier to fund demobilization and re-integration programs elsewhere in the world.

It may make it easier to fund demobilization and re-integration programs elsewhere in the world,

It's a big credibility issue for the drug war, more than anything, because there is a big contingent of people in Congress and the (Bush) administration who have taken a hard line against drug trafficking. It's very odd and hurts their credibility if these same elements in Congress and the administration remain silent on this and just let it slide.