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.

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.

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.

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,