Much remains to be done in Colombia's fight against cultivation of coca, th...
BOGOTA - Much remains to be done in Colombia’s fight against cultivation of coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a visit to Bogota on Monday.
This month Colombian President Ivan Duque announced the country eradicated more than 100,000 hectares of coca last year - a record. Coca eradication is the best way to protect peace efforts and fight drug trafficking which fuels violence, Duque told Reuters in an interview last week. Aerial spraying of the herbicide glyphosate was banned by the Constitutional Court in 2015 over cancer concerns but Duque has said a restart under safety conditions set by magistrates could be possible this year.
“We all know too that the Iranian regime’s top terrorist proxy Hezbollah has found a home in Venezuela under Maduro. This is unacceptable,” Pompeo added, referring to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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