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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - President Alvaro Uribe vowed on Friday to press ahead with U.S.-financed fumigation of cocaine-producing crops, even as a White House report found an aerial spraying offensive in Colombia last year failed to cut the acreage devoted to coca cultivation.
Critics of Washington's effort to crush drug production in Colombia — the world's main cocaine-producing country and a major supplier of heroin — say the report indicated the Colombian and U.S. governments are losing the war on drugs, which has cost more than $3 billion in U.S. aid here since 2000.
"The U.S. government's own data provides stark evidence that the drug war is failing to achieve its most basic objectives," said John Walsh at the Washington Office on Latin America, a think tank critical of U.S. drug policies in Colombia.
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