Monday, August 21, 2006

Colombia: Government and Bush admin refutes New York Times article on coca growth

Colombian government officials denied a report published over the weekend by the New York Times claiming that efforts to eradicate coca have “left the price, quality and availability of cocaine on American streets virtually unchanged”. “The world would be inundated with coca if not for the efforts by Colombia” said one government official though a drug policy expert noted that “it's hard to say that there's been tremendous success (in the war on drugs), but it's also hard to say that there has been tremendous failure.” (Image via El Tiempo).

Update (23 August): An English-language translation of the Colombian governmet's displeasure with the Times' article, via People's Daily Online.

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3 comments:

  1. Dr.T6:11 PM

    Makes you wonder what it would take to make it easy to say there has been a tremendous failure.

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  2. Erwin C.1:42 AM

    At the rate things are going with the current regimes in the U.S. and Colombia there will NEVER be an admission of failure to the "war on drugs" and/or significantly alterations to the U.S. policy on drugs. (Especially with the rehtoric linking that to the "war on terror".) Thems the breaks, I suppose.

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  3. Taylor Kirk4:18 AM

    People here in the US of A are notoriously bad at admitting past mistakes. The next time I hear 'Why do you hate America?' I'm going to throw myself out the window. But only if I'm on the first floor.

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