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...protesters claimed Gore owns stock in an oil company, Occidental Petroleum, that drills in Colombia, and they claim is unfriendly to the environment and the local Colombian population...
...news was worse than the CIA had ever imagined. After reviewing a fresh batch of spy-satellite photos and intelligence reports from the ground, agency analysts this month concluded that Colombia produced 520 metric tons of cocaine last year, three times what the agency had previously calculated. Then last week, Administration drug czar Barry McCaffrey made public the other CIA bombshell: Colombia's opium-poppy cultivation also jumped 23% in 1999. All told, says McCaffrey, 80% of the cocaine and heroin entering the U.S. comes from or through Colombia, causing 52,000 deaths here each year, along with $110 billion...
...white flag. The billion-dollar cartels were replaced by more than 40 independent organizations that are difficult to penetrate and whose leaders have been just as enterprising as the old kingpins. When Peru and Bolivia put the squeeze on coca cultivation, the traffickers moved their crops to southern Colombia, which the government in Bogota had largely ceded to Marxist guerrillas. Then, improved refining techniques enabled traffickers to increase output. To combat the growers, the White House has asked for $1.6 billion in aid. For foreign aid, it's a staggering sum. If Congress approves the money--and Republicans there seem...
Almost three-fourths of the $1.6 billion would pay for military hardware and training, including 30 top-of-the-line Blackhawk helicopters. The rest would be economic and law-enforcement assistance, which White House officials have ordered U.S. aid agencies to pump into Colombia as fast as its government can absorb the dollars. All that money would be used to battle not only the drug traffickers but also the guerrillas who are aligned with them and who have waged a 35-year insurgency against the government. What's more, U.S. officials say privately that the $1.6 billion would be just...
...threat from abroad. During its first term, the Administration shifted money from blocking the flow of drugs from Latin America to trying to reduce demand at home. Now, in the second term, "the Republicans believe Clinton is vulnerable on the drug issue," says Myles Frechette, former U.S. ambassador to Colombia. During the past two years, conservative House members complained that the White House was ignoring Colombia--and began working directly with Colombian National Police commander Jose Serrano to slip weapons he wanted into appropriations bills...