Achievements
Another great success story in a war we should never have started:
Tags: Colombia, The war on DrugsColombia’s coca crop — the basis for cocaine — grew by 27 percent last year, the United Nations reported Wednesday, calling the increase “a surprise and a shock” given major U.S.-funded eradication efforts.
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Washington has spent more than US$5 billion in Colombia over the past seven years to combat both a long-running insurgency and the world’s largest cocaine industry, a business that helps fund a five-decade armed conflict.