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Colombian Coca Crop Increases Again
June 4, 2007

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The billions of U.S. dollars pouring into Colombian anti-drug efforts have failed for a third straight year to curb cocaine production in the South American country, the Associated Press reported June 3.

Colombian cocaine production rose 8 percent last year, according to a new report from the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy cited by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. The report said more than 385,000 hectares of Colombian soil are now used to cultivate coca.

"Yesterday (for Thursday) they told me they were worried about revealing this number because of my upcoming trip to the United States, that the Americans should reveal it," Uribe said. "But that's why I'm revealing it. We're not trying to put makeup on what is a serious matter."

Since 2000, the U.S. has spent more than $5 billion on Plan Colombia, which aimed to cut Colombian cocaine production in half within five years. Instead, cocaine production in Colombia has increased 27 percent since 1999. 

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Posted by Smokey Gray on 07 Jul 08 02:37 AM EDT
I have noted this elsewhere but felt it should be stated again. If Osama really did subsidize the Afghanastan poppy growers to produce more pure and cheaper opium as a way of destroying the integrety of the former Soviet Union, why not look for him in Columbia. Here is the set-up: He knows that the U.S. "War on Drugs" is nothing but a BIG MONEY-MAKER for those in control in the U.S., primarily the Congress. He is no fool. He also knows that right at $800 billion per year in U.S. Gross Domestic Product can be tied to the unwise use of psychoactive chemicals in the country. He also knows that we are loosing out to the Euro. That our economy is on shaky ground. He also knows that from an international standpoint, workable treatment and ultimate genetic cures for addictions are right around the corner. Subsidize drugs, encourages the alcohol industry to make "alcopops" and tell the Feds to "shove-it", then the cures hit and $800 billion per year disappears from our economy virtually overnight. We are forced into a very deep depression and at the economic mercy of far too many other world powers. Nifty trick and the U.S. Government is falling for it. Think about it!

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