Trumping Colombia’s peace: U.S. drug war threatens fragile accord, forests

Mongabay
Feb 5, 2018, 3:25 pm252 pts
The source of the souring of U.S.-Colombia political relations: a coca plant in Bolívar, Colombia. The Colombian government recently sought to combine eradication with alternative rural development to break the cycle of coca growing. The U.S. under Trump wants a return to the drug war, including aerial…

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