Word: colombianization
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...House, 186 legislators voted against the legislation. Some cited concern over the human rights record of the Colombian military, which has collaborated extensively and intimately with paramilitary death squads; others expressed doubts over becoming involved in an open-ended counterinsurgency campaign. Some representatives even questioned whether the war on drugs can be won militarily, urging instead that the funding go to treatment programs and other schemes designed to reduce the demand for drugs in the U.S. Supporters of the package, including the Clinton administration and the House GOP leadership, insist that the legislation remains essential to save the beleaguered government...
...often exceeded - in their brutality by right-wing paramilitary groups that originated in the north of the country. The paramilitaries, ironically, were originally organized by narco-traffickers incensed by kidnappings and land invasions orchestrated by the guerrillas. But they've grown, both because of active support from within the Colombian military and because they've managed to attract a large number of peasants fed up with bearing the "tax" burden placed on them by guerrillas claiming to fight on their behalf...
...dried resin that sparkle like tiny diamonds in the flat winter sunlight. These crystals make the local pot, which has been perfected through indoor growing under virtual laboratory conditions, twice as potent as competing varieties from Northern California and Oregon and six times as strong as most common Colombian and Mexican products. "This," Emery says, smiling at the minty-smelling weed, "is the top of the market." Across town, Dave Williams, an investigator for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, agrees--but he's not smiling. "British Columbia," he says ruefully, "now produces the best marijuana in the world...
...vegetation and for the labs where the narcotraffickers produce illicit drugs. Armed and armored, the helicopters can protect unarmed crop-dusting planes as they spray lethal herbicides over thousands of acres of coca and poppy plants. And only helicopters can spot outlaw labs and airstrips and then deliver Colombian police and military forces to destroy them. This drug smothering from the air has a credible track record in the region, cutting narcotics production in both Bolivia and Peru over the past decade...
...Colombian pilots will travel to Florida to learn to fly the jet-powered, twin-engine Blackhawks, which cost about $1,500 an hour to fly. Crews for the Hueys, which cost only $500 an hour, will be trained in Colombia, whose military has flown Bell birds for years. There is concern in the Pentagon and elsewhere in the U.S. government that sending the more costly and complicated Blackhawks will require Colombia to divert drug-fighting dollars to their maintenance or--more likely--force the U.S. to pick up the tab. "These are the best helicopters in our Army...