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...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 in health-care, crime and lost-productivity...
...radar screen. From February to June of last year, a period during which the Colombian crisis worsened, the top aide for Latin America on the National Security Council was detached to deal with Kosovo. With Republicans threatening last summer to ram through their own billion-dollar aid package, McCaffrey began lobbying the White House for a plan...
...politics - and that could put Washington right back in the thick of the Reagan-era counterinsurgency from which President Clinton has tried so hard to distance himself. With a $1.6 billion U.S. aid package to the Colombian military at stake, President Andres Pastrana and U.S. drug czar General Barry McCaffrey found themselves forced Thursday to defend the Colombian army from allegations that it remains intimately connected with right-wing paramilitary groups notorious for human rights abuses. But despite Pastrana and McCaffrey's insistence that the military remains clean, Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday that there are documented ties between...
...little noticed antidrug deal was not secret. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey had described it in an appearance before Congress, and the WB bragged about it in a press release. After the controversy broke last week, the networks, which are usually under attack for assaulting family values, were exasperated to find themselves under attack for promoting them...
...standard "While these results give us reason to be optimistic, we cannot let up on our efforts" statement, HHS Secretary Donna Shalala was willing to go further and say the government had really "turned a corner" in combating illegal drug usage. And, proclaimed White House drug czar Barry McCaffrey, "the fact that the numbers are best for the youngest age group [12-17] is a harbinger that use will continue to fall as this group grows older." By underplaying the numbers, Clinton is probably taking the right approach. "What you don't know is whether this is the result...