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10-20-2005, 05:01 PM
Lines in the Sand: A Week of Drug War Summits in South America
By Dan Feder,
Wed Oct 19th, 2005 at 02:14:12 PM EST
The northern Colombian city of Santa Marta — and Colombian president Álvaro Uribe — played host this week to the 15th Summit of the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (HONLEA) of Latin America and the Caribbean. President Uribe, addressing the delegations of about forty nations, took the opportunity to bash the drug legalization movement and demand that its neighbors do more to stop Colombian drugs from reaching consuming countries. Meanwhile, one of those neighbors — Venezuela — made some blunt criticisms of Plan Colombia and joined another one of Uribe’s neighbors — Ecuador — in complaining that the effects of the U.S.-sponsored crop fumigation program are spilling over the border and causing environmental and other damages…
The rest of the article can be read at: http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/10/19/141412/86
By Dan Feder,
Wed Oct 19th, 2005 at 02:14:12 PM EST
The northern Colombian city of Santa Marta — and Colombian president Álvaro Uribe — played host this week to the 15th Summit of the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (HONLEA) of Latin America and the Caribbean. President Uribe, addressing the delegations of about forty nations, took the opportunity to bash the drug legalization movement and demand that its neighbors do more to stop Colombian drugs from reaching consuming countries. Meanwhile, one of those neighbors — Venezuela — made some blunt criticisms of Plan Colombia and joined another one of Uribe’s neighbors — Ecuador — in complaining that the effects of the U.S.-sponsored crop fumigation program are spilling over the border and causing environmental and other damages…
The rest of the article can be read at: http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/10/19/141412/86