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Newsbrief:
Congress
Questions
Colombia's
Drug
War
Performance
6/21/02
An unreleased Congressional
report states that Colombia is not fulfilling its obligations in the joint
effort with the US to fight drug trafficking, according to an article in
the Los Angeles Times. Colombia has failed to provide personnel to
pilot 14 US-supplied Black Hawk helicopters, leaving the helicopters grounded.
Colombia has also reduced drug crop-eradication operations due to "political
concerns." The Bush administration is currently pushing to increase
military funding to Colombia in order to enable the country to continue
to fight the drug war.
Colombia drug war funding
has been heavily criticized by human rights and environmental groups as
well as organizations supporting the nation's peace process.
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Issue #242, 6/21/02
Editorial: Perspectives from Europe | Indiana Man Challenges Constitutionality of Analogue Laws | DRCNet Interview: Steven Silverman, Flex Your Rights | New DRCNet/StopTheDrugWar.org Merchandise Out -- Discounted Purchase Available | Newsbrief: Court Okays Police Pressure for Searches on Mass Transit | Human Rights Watch Report Says 124,000 Children Have Lost Parents to New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws | Newsbrief: Baltimore Anti-Drug Campaign Grant Shot Down | Newsbrief: Unitarians to Consider "Statement of Conscience" on Drug Policy Next Week | Newsbrief: New Zealand Greens Want to Talk About Legalization | Newsbrief: Britain Tests Heroin Dispensers | Newsbrief: Industrial Hemp to be on Ballot in South Dakota | Newsbrief: Nevada Voters to Weigh Benefits of Decriminalization | Newsbrief: Congress Questions Colombia's Drug War Performance | Newsbrief: Actor Larry Hagman of JR Fame Speaks Out Against Prohibition in Autobiography | The Reformer's Calendar
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